Job 4:11
Good News Translation
Like lions with nothing to kill and eat, they die, and all their children are scattered.

New Revised Standard Version
The strong lion perishes for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered.

Contemporary English Version
they starve, and their children are scattered.

New American Bible
The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The tiger hath perished for want of prey, and the young lions are scattered abroad.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The tiger hath perished for want of prey, and the young lions are scattered abroad.

old lion.

Job 38:39 Wilt thou take the prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of her whelps,

Genesis 49:9 Juda is a lion's whelp: to the prey, my son, thou art gone up: resting thou hast couched as a lion, and as a lioness, who shall rouse him?

Numbers 23:24 Behold the people shall rise up as a lioness, and shall lift itself up as a lion: it shall not lie down till it devour the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.

Numbers 24:9 Lying down he hath slept as a lion, and as a lioness, whom none shall dare to rouse. He that blesseth thee, shall also himself be blessed: he that curseth thee shall be reckoned accursed.

Psalm 7:2 Lest at any time he seize upon my soul like a lion, while there is no one to redeem me, nor to save.

Jeremiah 4:7 The lion is come up out of his den, and the robber of nations hath roused himself: he is come forth out of his place, to make thy land desolate: thy cities shall be laid waste, remaining without an inhabitant.

Hosea 11:10 They shall walk after the Lord, he shall roar as a lion: because he shall roar, and the children of the sea shall fear.

2 Timothy 4:17 But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that by me the preaching may be accomplished and that all the Gentiles may hear. And I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

perisheth.

Psalm 34:10 The rich have wanted, and have suffered hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not be deprived of any good.

the stout.

Job 1:19 A violent wind came on a sudden from the side of the desert, and shook the four corners of the house, and it fell upon thy children, and they are dead: and I alone have escaped to tell thee.

Job 8:3,4 Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just? . . .

Job 27:14,15 If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his grandsons shall not be filled with bread. . . .

Context
Eliphaz: The Innocent Prosper
10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the lioness, and the teeth of the whelps of lions, are broken: 11The tiger hath perished for want of prey, and the young lions are scattered abroad.12Now there was a word spoken to me in private, and my ears by stealth, as it were, received the veins of its whisper.…
Cross References
Job 5:4
His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.

Job 5:15
But he shall save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent.

Job 20:10
His children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands shall render to him his sorrow.

Job 27:14
If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his grandsons shall not be filled with bread.

Job 29:17
I broke the jaws of the wicked man, and out of his teeth I took away the prey.

Psalm 34:10
The rich have wanted, and have suffered hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not be deprived of any good.

Job 4:10
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