Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood?
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?
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 Do you go after food for the she-lion, or get meat so that the young lions may have enough, 40 When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood? 41 Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?
Names
Cross References
Job 37:8
Then the beasts go into their holes, and take their rest.
Genesis 49:9
Judah is a young lion; like a lion full of meat you have become great, my son; now he takes his rest like a lion stretched out and like an old lion; by whom will his sleep be broken?
Numbers 23:24
See, Israel comes up like a she-lion, lifting himself up like a lion: he will take no rest till he has made a meal of those he has overcome, drinking the blood of those he has put to death.
Numbers 24:9
He took his sleep stretched out like a lion, and like a she-lion: by whom will his rest be broken? May a blessing be on everyone who gives you blessing, and a curse on everyone by whom you are cursed.