Job 38:40
Good News Translation
when they hide in their caves, or lie in wait in their dens?

New Revised Standard Version
when they crouch in their dens, or lie in wait in their covert?

Contemporary English Version
Do you send an animal into their den?

New American Bible
While they crouch in their dens, or lie in ambush in the thicket?

Douay-Rheims Bible
When they couch in the dens and lie in wait in holes?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

When they couch in the dens and lie in wait in holes?

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.

Context
God Challenges Job
39Wilt thou take the prey for the lioness, and satisfy the appetite of her whelps, 40When they couch in the dens and lie in wait in holes?41Who provideth food for the raven, when her young ones cry to God, wandering about, because they have no meat?…
Cross References
Job 37:8
Then the beast shall go into his covert, and shall abide in his den.

Job 38:41
Who provideth food for the raven, when her young ones cry to God, wandering about, because they have no meat?

Job 38:39
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