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38 when the dust hardens[a] into a mass,
and the clumps of earth stick together?
39 “Do you hunt prey for the lioness,

and satisfy the appetite[b] of the lions
40 when they crouch in their dens,
when they wait in ambush in the thicket?

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Footnotes

  1. Job 38:38 tn The word means “to flow” or “to cast” (as in casting metals). So the noun developed the sense of “hard,” as in cast metal.
  2. Job 38:39 tn Heb “fill up the life of.”