Parallel Verses
NET Bible
when they crouch in their dens, when they wait in ambush in the thicket?
New American Standard Bible
And lie in wait in their lair?
King James Version
When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?
Holman Bible
and lie in wait within their lairs?
International Standard Version
when they crouch in their dens and lie in ambush in their lairs?
A Conservative Version
when they couch in their dens, [and] abide in the covert to lie in wait?
American Standard Version
When they couch in their dens, And abide in the covert to lie in wait?
Amplified
When they crouch in their dens
And lie in wait in their lair?
Bible in Basic English
When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood?
Darby Translation
When they crouch in their dens, and abide in the thicket to lie in wait?
Julia Smith Translation
For they will sink down in the dwellings; they will dwell in the thicket to lie in wait
King James 2000
When they crouch in their dens, and abide in their lairs to lie in wait?
Lexham Expanded Bible
when they are crouched in the dens, [when] they lie in the thicket in an ambush?
Modern King James verseion
when they crouch in dens, and sit in the cover of their hiding place?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
living in their dens, and lurking in their couches?
New Heart English Bible
when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?
The Emphasized Bible
When they settle down in dens, abide in covert, for lying in wait?
Webster
When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?
World English Bible
when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?
Youngs Literal Translation
When they bow down in dens -- Abide in a thicket for a covert?
Interlinear
Shachach
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 38:40
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Lioness
39 "Do you hunt prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of the lions, 40 when they crouch in their dens, when they wait in ambush in the thicket? 41 Who prepares prey for the raven, when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?
Names
Cross References
Job 37:8
The wild animals go to their lairs, and in their dens they remain.
Genesis 49:9
You are a lion's cub, Judah, from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches and lies down like a lion; like a lioness -- who will rouse him?
Numbers 23:24
Indeed, the people will rise up like a lioness, and like a lion raises himself up; they will not lie down until they eat their prey, and drink the blood of the slain."
Numbers 24:9
They crouch and lie down like a lion, and as a lioness, who can stir him? Blessed is the one who blesses you, and cursed is the one who curses you!'"