Ayub 38:40

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

(38-2) kalau mereka merangkak di dalam sarangnya, mengendap di bawah semak belukar?

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
(38-2) kalau mereka merangkak di dalam sarangnya, mengendap di bawah semak belukar?

Contextual Overview

²⁵ Who deuideth the waters into diuers chanels? or who maketh a way for the lightening and thunder, ²⁶ To cause it to rayne on the earth where no man is, and in the wildernesse where none inhabiteth? ²⁷ To satisfie the desolate and waste grounde, and to cause the budde of the hearbe to spring foorth. ²⁸ Who is the father of the rayne? or who hath begotten the droppes of the deawe? ²⁹ Out of whose wombe came the yce? Who hath gendred the coldnesse of the ayre? ³⁰ That the waters are hidde as [with] a stone, and lye congealed aboue the deepe. ³¹ Wylt thou hinder the sweete influences of the seuen starres? or loose the bandes of Orion? ³² Canst thou bring foorth Mazzaroth in their time? canst thou also guide Arctutus with his sonnes? ³³ Knowest thou the course of heauen, that thou mayest set vp the ordinaunce thereof vpon the earth? ³⁴ Moreouer, canst thou lift vp thy voyce to the cloudes, that they may powre downe a great rayne vpon thee?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Genesis 49:9, Numbers 23:24, Numbers 24:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 1:24 - Let

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When they couch in [their] dens, [and] abide in the covert to lie in wait?] Which some understand of old lions, who, for want of strength, lie couchant in their dens, or in some covert place, waiting for any prey that passes by, to seize upon it. But the same pasture and places are used by younger lions, as well as old ones; who are emblems of wicked men, cruel persecutors, and bloodthirsty tyrants, who fill their palaces and kingdoms with murder and rapine; see Psalms 10:8 Nahum 2:11.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When they couch in their dens - For the purpose of springing upon their prey.

And abide in the covert to lie in wait? - The usual posture of the lion when he seeks his prey. He places himself in some unobserved position in a dense thicket, or crouches upon the ground so as not to be seen, and then springs suddenly upon his victim. The common method of the lion in taking his prey is to spring or throw himself upon it from the place of his ambush, with one vast bound and to inflict the mortal blow with one stroke of his paw. If he misses his aim, however, he seldom attempts another spring at the same object, but deliberately returns to the thicket in which he lay in concealment. See the habits of the lion illustrated in the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, “Mazology.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 38:40. When they couch in their dens — Before they are capable of trusting themselves abroad.

Abide in the covert — Before they are able to hunt down the prey by running. It is a fact that the young lions, before they have acquired sufficient strength and swiftness, lie under cover, in order to surprise those animals which they have not fleetness enough to overtake in the forest; and from this circumstance the כפירים kephirim, "young lions, or lions' whelps," have their name: the root is כפר caphar, to cover or hide. Job 4:11, where six different names are given to the lion, all expressing some distinct quality or state.