Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
When they crouch in their dens, and abide in the thicket to lie in wait?
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?
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 Dost thou hunt the prey for the lioness, and dost thou satisfy the appetite of the young lions, 40 When they crouch in their dens, and abide in the thicket to lie in wait? 41 Who provideth for the raven his food, when his young ones cry unto God, and they wander for lack of meat?
Names
Cross References
Job 37:8
And the wild beast goeth into its lair, and they remain in their dens.
Genesis 49:9
Judah is a young lion; From the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stoopeth, he layeth himself down as a lion, And as a lioness: who will rouse him up?
Numbers 23:24
Lo, the people will rise up as a lioness, and lift himself up as a lion. He shall not lie down until he have eaten the prey and drunk the blood of the slain.
Numbers 24:9
He stooped, he lay down like a lion, and like a lioness: who will stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.