Job 38:40
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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?

Lexicon
when
כִּי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

they crouch
יָשֹׁ֥חוּ (yā·šō·ḥū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7817: To bow, be bowed down, crouch

in their dens
בַמְּעוֹנ֑וֹת (ḇam·mə·‘ō·w·nō·wṯ)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4585: An abode, of God, men, animals, a retreat

and lie
יֵשְׁב֖וּ (yê·šə·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

in
לְמוֹ־ (lə·mōw-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 3926: To or foreign

wait
אָֽרֶב׃ (’ā·reḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 695: A lying in wait, a covert, lair

in the thicket?
בַסֻּכָּ֣ה (ḇas·suk·kāh)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5521: A thicket, booth


Additional Translations
when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait in the thicket?When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?

When they couch in their dens, And abide in the covert to lie in wait?

For they fear in their lairs, and lying in wait couch in the woods.

When they crouch in [their] dens, [and] abide in the thicket to lie in wait?

When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?

When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?

when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?

When they bow down in dens -- Abide in a thicket for a covert?
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