KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 38:38–40
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Job 38:38
38When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?
38‖When the dust †groweeh into hardnesse, and the clods cleaue fast together?
- Or, when the dust is turned into myre.
- Heb. is powred.
Job 38:39
39Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
39*Wilt thou hunt the pray for the lyon? or fill the †appetite of the young lyons,
- Heb. the life.
- Psal. 104.21.
Job 38:40
40When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?
40When they couch in their dennes, and abide in the couert to lie in waite?
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 38:38
Fine, dry particles of earth; the ground or earth, often as an image of frailty, abasement, or death.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The condition of being hard, firm, or resistant; difficulty or hardship; figuratively, stubbornness or insensibility of heart.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To split or divide; in a different sense, to cling closely or remain joined.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Firm, fixed, or secure; moving quickly; also an abstinence from food or the act of abstaining.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
In one place, company, time, purpose, or united condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Job 38:39
To will, choose, intend, or be disposed to; as an auxiliary, indicates future action.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To pursue or search for, especially game, in order to catch or kill.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Booty or spoil taken by force; an animal or person hunted or seized.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A large, powerful wild cat; figuratively, one fierce or strong.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To make full, supply to capacity, satisfy, occupy, or complete what is lacking, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
Desire to any thing.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
Early in life or growth; not mature; also offspring, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Large powerful wild cats; also figures of strength, fierceness, danger, or royal power.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Job 38:40
Bed, lie down; to lie, lie down.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604 · Skeat 1893
To remain or dwell.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A shelter, hiding-place.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
To recline, rest, remain, or be situated; also, to speak falsely or a falsehood.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To remain in expectation or readiness; to attend or serve; as a noun, an ambush or concealed watch.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
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From verse 39
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Open the full verse study21The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
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Open the full verse study10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
11The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.
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Open the full verse study15The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.
16Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
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Open the full verse study10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.
From verse 40
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Open the full verse study8Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.
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Open the full verse study9Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
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Open the full verse study24Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.
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Open the full verse study9He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.
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