Psalm 104:22 {103:22}
Good News Translation
When the sun rises, they go back and lie down in their dens.

New Revised Standard Version
When the sun rises, they withdraw and lie down in their dens.

Contemporary English Version
But when morning comes, they return to their dens,

New American Bible
When the sun rises, they steal away and settle down in their dens.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The sun ariseth, and they are gathered together: and they shall lie down in their dens.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The sun ariseth, and they are gathered together: and they shall lie down in their dens.

Job 24:13-17 They have been rebellious to the light, they have not known his ways, neither have they returned by his paths. . . .

Nahum 3:17 Thy guards are like the locusts: and thy little ones like the locusts of locusts which swarm on the hedges in the day of cold: the sun arose, and they flew away, and their place was not known where they were.

John 3:20 For every one that doth evil hateth the light and cometh not to the light, that his works may not be reproved.

Context
How Many Are Your Works, O LORD!
21The young lions roaring after their prey, and seeking their meat from God. 22The sun ariseth, and they are gathered together: and they shall lie down in their dens.23Man shall go forth to his work, and to his labour until the evening.…
Cross References
Job 37:8
Then the beast shall go into his covert, and shall abide in his den.

Psalm 104:23
Man shall go forth to his work, and to his labour until the evening.

Psalm 104:21
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