Job 38:40
 Job 38:40 
New International Version (©2011)
when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in a thicket?

New Living Translation (©2007)
as they lie in their dens or crouch in the thicket?

English Standard Version (©2001)
when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in their thicket?

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
When they crouch in their dens And lie in wait in their lair?

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait within their lairs?

International Standard Version (©2012)
when they crouch in their dens and lie in ambush in their lairs?

NET Bible (©2006)
when they crouch in their dens, when they wait in ambush in the thicket?

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
as they crouch in their dens and lie ready to ambush from their lairs?

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
When they crouch in their dens, and abide in their lairs to lie in wait?

American King James 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?

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

Darby Bible Translation
When they crouch in their dens, and abide in the thicket to lie in wait?

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

Webster's Bible Translation
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?

Young's Literal Translation
When they bow down in dens -- Abide in a thicket for a covert?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

38:25-41 Hitherto God had put questions to Job to show him his ignorance; now God shows his weakness. As it is but little that he knows, he ought not to arraign the Divine counsels; it is but little he can do, therefore he ought not to oppose the ways of Providence. See the all-sufficiency of the Divine Providence; it has wherewithal to satisfy the desire of every living thing. And he that takes care of the young ravens, certainly will not be wanting to his people. This being but one instance of the Divine compassion out of many, gives us occasion to think how much good our God does, every day, beyond what we are aware of. Every view we take of his infinite perfections, should remind us of his right to our love, the evil of sinning against him, and our need of his mercy and salvation.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 40. - When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait (comp. Psalm 10:9, 10; Psalm 17:12).


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait? Which some understand of old lions, who, for want of strength, lie couchant in their dens, or in some covert place, waiting for any prey that passes by, to seize upon it. But the same pasture and places are used by younger lions, as well as old ones; who are emblems of wicked men, cruel persecutors, and bloodthirsty tyrants, who fill their palaces and kingdoms with murder and rapine; see Psalm 10:8, Nahum 2:11.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

40. lie in wait?—for their prey (Ps 10:9).


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God Challenges Job
39Will you hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions, 40When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait? 41Who provides for the raven his food? when his young ones cry to God, they wander for lack of meat.

Job 37:8 The animals take cover; they remain in their dens.
Job 38:41 Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?