Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
living in their dens, and lurking in their couches?
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?
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 Huntest thou the prey from the lion, or feedest thou his whelps 40 living in their dens, and lurking in their couches? 41 Who provideth meat for the raven, when his young ones cry unto God, and fly about for want of meat?
Names
Cross References
Job 37:8
The beasts creep into their dens, and take their rest.
Genesis 49:9
Judah is a lion's whelp. From spoil, my son, thou art come on high: he laid him down and couched himself as a lion, and as a lioness. Who dare stir him up?
Numbers 23:24
Behold, the people shall rise up as a lioness and heave up himself as a lion; and shall not lie down again, until he have eaten of the prey and drunk of the blood of them that are slain!"
Numbers 24:9
He couched himself and lay down as a lion and as a lioness; who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee."