Job 38:40 · KJV
“When they couch in {their} dens, {and} abide in the covert to lie in wait?”
— Job 38:40
Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions, {the appetite: Heb. the life}
Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
Job 38 — Context
When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together? {groweth...: or, is turned into mire: Heb. is poured}
39Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions, {the appetite: Heb. the life}
40When they couch in {their} dens, {and} abide in the covert to lie in wait?
41Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
Cross References
Job 37:8
Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.
Numbers 23:24
Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat {of} the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
Genesis 49:9
Judah {is} a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
Numbers 24:9
He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed {is} he that blesseth thee, and cursed {is} he that curseth thee.