God’s Word Translation
Job 4:11
11The old lions die without any prey ⌞to eat⌟, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
Job 4:11 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.
- New International Version (NIV)The lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The old lion perishes for lack of prey, And the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
Context of Job 4:11
9God destroys them with his breath and kills them with a blast of his anger. 10Though the roar of the lion and the growl of the ferocious lion ⌞is loud⌟, the young lions have had their teeth knocked out. The old lions die without any prey ⌞to eat⌟, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered. 12“I was told something secretly and heard something whispered in my ear. 13With disturbing thoughts from visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on people,
Read all of Job 4Job 4:11 word by word
לַ֭יִשׁ אֹבֵ֣ד מִבְּלִי־טָ֑רֶף וּבְנֵ֥י לָ֝בִ֗יא יִתְפָּרָֽדוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 4:11
- Job 38:39“Can you hunt prey for the lioness and satisfy the hunger of her cubs
- Genesis 49:9Judah, you are a lion cub. You have come back from the kill, my son. He lies down and rests like a lion. He is like a lioness. Who dares to disturb him?
- Numbers 23:24Here is a nation that attacks like a lioness and is as ferocious as a lion. It doesn’t lie down until it eats its prey and drinks the blood of its victim.”
- Numbers 24:9His people lie down ⌞and⌟ rest like a lion. They are like a lioness. Who dares to disturb them? Those who bless you will be blessed! Those who curse you will be cursed!”
- Psalms 7:2Like a lion they will tear me to pieces and drag me off with no one to rescue me.
- Jeremiah 4:7A lion has come out of its lair. A destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his place to destroy your land. Your cities will be ruined, and no one will live in them.
- Hosea 11:10“My people will follow me when I roar like a lion. When I roar, my children will come trembling from the west.
- 2 Timothy 4:17However, the Lord stood by me and gave me strength so that I could finish spreading the Good News for all the nations to hear. I was snatched out of a lion’s mouth.
- Psalms 34:10Young lions go hungry and may starve, but those who seek the Lord’s help have all the good things they need.
- Job 1:19when suddenly a great storm swept across the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It fell on the young people, and they died. I’m the only one who has escaped to tell you.”
- Job 8:3Does God distort justice, or does the Almighty distort righteousness?
- Job 27:14If he has many children, swords will kill them, and his descendants won’t have enough food.
Commentaries on Job 4:11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11The old lion perisheth - In this and the preceding verse the word lion occurs five times; and in the original the words are all different: - אריה aryeh, from ארה arah, to tear off. שחל shachal, which as it appears to signify black or dark, may mean the black lion, which is said to be found in Ethiopia and India. כפיר kephir, a young lion, from כפר caphar, to cover, because he is said to hide himself in order to surprise his prey, which the old one does…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11The old lion - The word used here, לישׁ layı̂sh denotes a lion, “so called,” says Gesenius,” from his strength and bravery,” or, according to Urnbreit, the lion in the strength of his old ago; see an examination of the word in Bochart, Hieroz. P. i. Lib. iii. c. 1, p. 720. Perisheth for lack of prey - Not withstanding his strength and power. That is, such a thing sometimes occurs. Eliphaz could not maintain that it always happened. The meaning seems to…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-11Verses 7-11 Eliphaz argues, 1. That good men were never thus ruined. But there is one event both to the righteous and to the wicked, Ec 9:2, both in life and death; the great and certain difference is after death. Our worst mistakes are occasioned by drawing wrong views from undeniable truths. 2. That wicked men were often thus ruined: for the proof of this, Eliphaz vouches his own observation. We may see the same every day.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 10-1110-11. lion--that is, wicked men, upon whom Eliphaz wished to show that calamities come in spite of their various resources, just as destruction comes on the lion in spite of his strength (Psa 58:6; 2Ti 4:17). Five different Hebrew terms here occur for "lion." The raging of the lion (the tearer), and the roaring of the bellowing lion and the teeth of the young lions, not whelps, but grown up enough to hunt for prey. The strong lion, the whelps of the…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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