Job 4:11

Job chapter 4 · verse 11 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, And the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, And the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.

Context

v.10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

v.11This passage

v.12Now a thing was secretly brought to me, And mine ear received a whisper thereof.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 34:10

    The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; But they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good thing.

  • Job 1:19

    and, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

  • Job 8:3

    Doth God pervert justice? Or doth the Almighty pervert righteousness?

  • Jeremiah 4:7

    A lion is gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations; he is on his way, he is gone forth from his place, to make thy land desolate, that thy cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.

  • Hosea 11:10

    They shall walk after Jehovah, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children shall come trembling from the west.

  • Numbers 24:9

    He couched, he lay down as a lion, And as a lioness; who shall rouse him up? Blessed be every one that blesseth thee, And cursed be every one that curseth thee.