Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
For they will sink down in the dwellings; they will dwell 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?
Darby Translation
When they crouch in their dens, and abide 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 Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? and wilt thou fill up the life of the young lions? 40 For they will sink down in the dwellings; they will dwell in the thicket to lie in wait 41 Who will prepare for the raven his food? for his young will cry to God; they will wander without food.
Names
Cross References
Job 37:8
And the beast shall go into the covert, and shall dwell in its habitation.
Genesis 49:9
Judah, a lion's whelp; from the green leaf, my son, thou didst go up: bending, lying down, as a lion, and as a lioness: who shall raise him up?
Numbers 23:24
Behold, the people will rise up as a lioness, and as a lion he will be lifted up: he will not lie down till he shall eat the prey and drink the blood of the wounded.
Numbers 24:9
He bowed; he lay down as a lion, and as a lioness: who shall raise him up? Praised he praising thee, and cursed he cursing thee.