Parallel Verses
Amplified
When they crouch in their dens
And lie in wait in their lair?
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?
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?
NET Bible
when they crouch in their dens, when they wait in ambush in the thicket?
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
“Can you [Job] hunt the prey for the lion,
Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions
When they crouch in their dens
And lie in wait in their lair?
“Who provides prey for the raven
When its young cry to God
And wander about without food?
Names
Cross References
Job 37:8
“Then the beast goes into its lair
And remains in its hiding place.
Genesis 49:9
“Judah, a lion’s cub;
With the prey, my son, you have gone high up [the mountain].
He stooped down, he crouched like a lion,
And like a lion—who dares rouse him?
Numbers 23:24
“Behold, a people rises up like a lioness
And lifts itself up like a lion;
He will not lie down until he devours the prey
And drinks the blood of the slain.”
Numbers 24:9
“He bowed down [to rest], he lies down as a lion;
And as a lioness, who dares to rouse him?
Blessed [of God] is he who blesses you,
And cursed [of God] is he who curses you.”