KJV King James Version
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.
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Job 4:11
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
WEB World English Bible
The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.
ASV American Standard Version
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, And the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
An old lion is perishing without prey, And the whelps of the lioness do separate.
Surrounding context — Job 4
8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.
12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
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Psalm 34:10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good [thing].Numbers 24:9He 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.Genesis 49:9Judah [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?2 Timothy 4:17Notwithstanding 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 38:39Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,Jeremiah 4:7The 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.Job 8:3-4Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?Numbers 23:24Behold, 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.Psalm 7:2Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending [it] in pieces, while [there is] none to deliver.Hosea 11:10They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.Job 1:19And, 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.Job 27:14-15If his children be multiplied, [it is] for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
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