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Job 37:8

The wild animals go to their lairs, and in their dens they remain.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Animals;   God;   God Continued...;   Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena;   Religion;   Thompson Chain Reference - Dens;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Beasts;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Nature, Natural;   Testimony;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Den;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elihu;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Den;   Place;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The wild animals enter their lairsand stay in their dens.
Hebrew Names Version
Then the animals go into coverts, And remain in their dens.
King James Version
Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.
English Standard Version
Then the beasts go into their lairs, and remain in their dens.
New Century Version
The animals take cover from the rain and stay in their dens.
Amplified Bible
"Then the beast goes into its lair And remains in its hiding place.
New American Standard Bible
"Then the animal goes into its lair And remains in its den.
World English Bible
Then the animals go into coverts, And remain in their dens.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the beastes go into the denne, and remaine in their places.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then the beast goes into its lairAnd dwells in its den.
Berean Standard Bible
The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens.
Contemporary English Version
and they force animals to seek shelter.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then the animals go into their lairs and hibernate in their dens.
Darby Translation
And the wild beast goeth into its lair, and they remain in their dens.
Easy-to-Read Version
The animals run into their dens and stay there.
George Lamsa Translation
Then the wild beasts go into their lurking places, and remain in their dens.
Good News Translation
The wild animals go to their dens.
Lexham English Bible
Then the animal goes into its den, and it remains in its den.
Literal Translation
Then the beast goes into its lair, and they stay in their dens.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The beestes crepe in to their dennes, & take their rest.
American Standard Version
Then the beasts go into coverts, And remain in their dens.
Bible in Basic English
Then the beasts go into their holes, and take their rest.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then the beasts go into coverts, and remain in their dens.
King James Version (1611)
Then the beastes goe into dennes: and remaine in their places.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The beastes creepe into their dennes, and remaine in their places.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the wild beasts come in under the covert, and rest in their lair.
English Revised Version
Then the beasts go into coverts, and remain in their dens.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
An vnresonable beeste schal go in to his denne, and schal dwelle in his caue, `ethir derke place.
Update Bible Version
Then the beasts go into coverts, And remain in their dens.
Webster's Bible Translation
Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.
New King James Version
The beasts go into dens, And remain in their lairs.
New Living Translation
The wild animals take cover and stay inside their dens.
New Life Bible
Then the wild animals go to their holes, and stay where they live.
New Revised Standard
Then the animals go into their lairs and remain in their dens.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So then the wild-beast hath gone into covert, and, in its lairs, doth it remain.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Then the beast shall go into his covert, and shall abide in his den.
Revised Standard Version
Then the beasts go into their lairs, and remain in their dens.
Young's Literal Translation
And enter doth the beast into covert, And in its habitations it doth continue.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Then the beast goes into its lair And remains in its den.

Contextual Overview

6 For to the snow he says, ‘Fall to earth,' and to the torrential rains, ‘Pour down.' 7 He causes everyone to stop working, so that all people may know his work. 8 The wild animals go to their lairs, and in their dens they remain. 9 A tempest blows out from its chamber, icy cold from the driving winds. 10 The breath of God produces ice, and the breadth of the waters freeze solid. 11 He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through the clouds. 12 The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world. 13 Whether it is for punishment for his land, or whether it is for mercy, he causes it to find its mark.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 104:22

Cross-References

Genesis 37:3
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons because he was a son born to him late in life, and he made a special tunic for him.
Genesis 37:4
When Joseph's brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated Joseph and were not able to speak to him kindly.
Genesis 37:6
He said to them, "Listen to this dream I had:
Genesis 37:27
Come, let's sell him to the Ishmaelites, but let's not lay a hand on him, for after all, he is our brother, our own flesh." His brothers agreed.
Genesis 37:28
So when the Midianite merchants passed by, Joseph's brothers pulled him out of the cistern and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The Ishmaelites then took Joseph to Egypt.
Genesis 49:26
The blessings of your father are greater than the blessings of the eternal mountains or the desirable things of the age-old hills. They will be on the head of Joseph and on the brow of the prince of his brothers.
Exodus 2:14
The man replied, "Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? Are you planning to kill me like you killed that Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid, thinking, "Surely what I did has become known."
1 Samuel 10:27
But some wicked men said, "How can this man save us?" They despised him and did not even bring him a gift. But Saul said nothing about it.
1 Samuel 17:28
When David's oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, he became angry with David and said, "Why have you come down here? To whom did you entrust those few sheep in the desert? I am familiar with your pride and deceit! You have come down here to watch the battle!"
Psalms 118:22
The stone which the builders discarded has become the cornerstone.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then the beasts go into dens,.... When snow and rains are on the earth in great abundance, then the wild beasts of the field, not being able to prowl about, betake themselves to dens; where they lie in wait, lurking for any prey that may pass by, from whence they spring and seize it;

and remain in their places; until the snow and rains are finished. As for other beasts, Olaus Magnus m observes, that when such large snows fall, that trees are covered with them, and the tender branches bend under the weight of them, they will come and abide under them, as in shady places, in great security, sheltered from the cold wind. The former may put us in mind of great personages, comparable to beasts of prey for their savageness and cruelty, who, when the day of God's wrath and vengeance is come, will flee to rocks and mountains, dens and caverns, there to hide themselves from it; Revelation 6:15.

m Ut supra. (De Ritu Gent. Septentr. l. 19. c. 15.)

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then the beasts go into dens - In the winter. This fact appears to have been early observed, that in the season of cold the wild animals withdrew into caves, and that many of them became torpid. This fact Elihu adverts to as an illustration of the wisdom and greatness of God. The proof of his superintending care was seen in the fact that they withdrew from the cold in which they would perish, and that provision is made for their continuance in life at a time when they cannot obtain the food by which they ordinarily subsist. In that torpid and inactive state, they need little food, and remain often for months with almost no nourishment.


 
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