Job 4:11 · KJV
“The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.”
— Job 4:11
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. {secretly: Heb. by stealth}
Job 4 — Context
By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed. {by the breath...: that is, by his anger}
10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
11The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
12Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof. {secretly: Heb. by stealth}
13In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
Cross References
Psalms 34:10
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good {thing}.
Job 8:3-4
Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?
Job 27:14-15
If his children be multiplied, {it is} for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
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.
2 Timothy 4:17
Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and {that} all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
Job 1:19
And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. {from...: Heb. from aside, etc}
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.
Jeremiah 4:7
The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone forth from his place to make thy land desolate; {and} thy cities shall be laid waste, without an inhabitant.