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Job 4:11
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The strong lion dies if it catches no prey,and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
The old lion perishes for lack of prey, The whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
that lion dies of hunger. The cubs of the mother lion are scattered.
The mighty lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
"The lion perishes for lack of prey, And the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
"The lion perishes for lack of prey, And the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
The old lion perishes for lack of prey, The whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.
The Lyon perisheth for lacke of pray, and the Lyons whelpes are scattered abroade.
The lion perishes for lack of prey,And the whelps of the lioness are scattered.
The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
they starve, and their children are scattered.
so the lion succumbs from lack of prey, and the lion's cubs are scattered.
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.
like a lioness that cannot find prey. They died, and their cubs starved to death.
The lion perishes for the lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.
Like lions with nothing to kill and eat, they die, and all their children are scattered.
The lion is perishing without prey, and the lion's whelps are scattered.
the old lion is perishing for lack of prey; and the lioness' offspring are scattered.
The greate lyon perysheth, because he ca get no pray and the lyons whelpes are scatred abrode.
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, And the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.
The old lion comes to his end for need of food, and the young of the she-lion go wandering in all directions.
The lion perisheth for lake of pray, & the lions whelpes are scattered abrode.
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.
The old Lyon perisheth for lacke of pray, and the stout Lyons whelpes are scattered abroad.
The old lion has perished for want of food, and the lions’ whelps have forsaken one another.
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.
Tigris perischide, for sche hadde not prey; and the whelpis of a lioun ben distried.
The old lion perishes for lack of prey, And the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
The fierce lion will starve for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness will be scattered.
The strong lion dies because there is no food to get. And the young of the lioness are sent everywhere.
The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.
The strong lion perishing for lack of prey, Even the whelps of the lioness, are scattered.
The tiger hath perished for want of prey, and the young lions are scattered abroad.
The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.
An old lion is perishing without prey, And the whelps of the lioness do separate.
"The lion perishes for lack of prey, And the whelps of the lioness are scattered.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
old lion: Job 38:39, Genesis 49:9, Numbers 23:24, Numbers 24:9, Psalms 7:2, Jeremiah 4:7, Hosea 11:10, 2 Timothy 4:17
perisheth: Psalms 34:10
the stout: Job 1:19, Job 8:3, Job 8:4, Job 27:14, Job 27:15
Reciprocal: Job 5:4 - children Psalms 58:6 - Break their Jeremiah 51:38 - roar Ezekiel 19:2 - young lions Nahum 2:11 - the dwelling
Cross-References
So the LORD God said to the serpent: "Because you have done this, You are cursed more than all cattle, And more than every beast of the field; On your belly you shall go, And you shall eat dust All the days of your life.
Surely You have driven me out this day from the face of the ground; I shall be hidden from Your face; I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth, and it will happen that anyone who finds me will kill me."
And the Lord said to him, "Therefore, [fn] whoever kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold." And the Lord set a mark on Cain, lest anyone finding him should kill him.
Then Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.
Then Lamech took for himself two wives: the name of one was Adah, and the name of the second was Zillah.
And Adah bore Jabal. He was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.
His brother's name was Jubal. He was the father of all those who play the harp and flute.
26 And as for Seth, to him also a son was born; and he named him Enosh. [fn] Then men began to call on the name of the Lord.
"O earth, do not cover my blood, And let my cry have no resting place!
For behold, the LORD comes out of His place To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; The earth will also disclose her blood, And will no more cover her slain.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey,.... Or rather "the stout" and "strong lion" e, that is most able to take the prey, and most skilful at it, yet such shall perish for want of it; not so much for want of finding it, or of power to seize it, as of keeping it when got, it being taken away from him; signifying, that God oftentimes in his providence takes away from cruel oppressors what they have got by oppression, and so they are brought into starving and famishing circumstances. The Septuagint render the word by "myrmecoleon", or the "ant lion", which Isidore f thus describes;
"it is a little animal, very troublesome to ants, which hides itself in the dust, and kills the ants as they carry their corn; hence it is called both a lion and an ant, because to other animals is as an ant, and to the ants as a lion,''
and therefore cannot be the lion here spoken of; though Strabo g and Aelianus h speak of lions in Arabia and Babylon called ants, which seem to be a species of lions, and being in those countries, might be known to Eliphaz. Megasthenes i speaks of ants in India as big as foxes, of great swiftness, and get their living by hunting:
and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad; or "the whelps of the lioness" k, these are scattered from the lion and lioness, and from one another, to seek for food, but in vain; the Targum applies this to Ishmael, and his posterity; Jarchi, and others, to the builders of Babel, said to be scattered, Genesis 11:8; rather reference may be had to the giants, the men of the old world, who filled the earth with violence, which was the cause of the flood being brought upon the world of the ungodly. Some think that Eliphaz has a regard to Job in all this, and that by the "fierce lion" he designs and describes Job as an oppressor and tyrant, and by the "lioness" his wife, and by the "young lions" and "lion's whelps" his children; and indeed, though he may not directly design him, yet he may obliquely point at him, and suggest that he was like to the men he had in view, and compares to these creatures, and therefore his calamities righteously came upon him.
e ליש "leo major", Pagninus, Montanus, Mercerus, Schmidt; "leo strenuns et fortis", Michaelis; "robustior leo", Schultens. f Origin. l. 12. c. 3. g Geograph. l. 16. p. 533. h De Animal. l. 7. c. 47. & l. 17. c. 42. i Apud Strabo, l. 15. p. 485. k בני לביא "filii leaenae", Bochart, Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The 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 be, that as the strength of the lion was no security that he would not perish for want, so it was with men who resembled the lion in the strength of mature age.
And the stout lion’s whelps - The word here rendered “stout lion,” לביא lâbı̂y', is probably derived from the obsolete root לבא lâbâ', “to roar,” and it is given to the lion on account of his roaring. Bochart, Hieroz. P. i. Lib. iii. c. 1. p. 719, supposes that the word means a lioness. These words complete the description of the lion, and the sense is, that the lion in no condition, or whatever name indicative of strength might be given to it, bad power to resist God when he came forth for its destruction. Its roaring, its strength, its teeth, its rage, were all in vain.
Are scattered abroad - That is, when the old lion is destroyed, the young ones flee, and are unable to offer resistance. So it is with men. When the divine judgments come upon them, they have no power to make successful resistance. God has them under control, and he comes forth at his pleasure to restrain and subdue them, as he does the wild beasts of the desert, though so fearful and formidable.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 4:11. The old lion perisheth — In this and the preceding verse the word lion occurs five times; and in the original the words are all different: -
1. אריה aryeh, from ארה arah, to tear off.
2. 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.
3. 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 not.
4. ליש lavish, from לש lash, to knead, trample upon; because of his method of seizing his prey.
5. לביא labi, from לבא laba, to suckle with the first milk; a lioness giving suck; at which time they are peculiarly fierce.
All these words may point out some quality of the lion; and this was probably the cause why they were originally given: but it is likely that, in process of time, they served only to designate the beast, without any particular reference to any of his properties. We have one and the same idea when we say the lion, the king of beasts, the monarch of the forest, the most noble of quadrupeds, &c.
