Job 4:11


11 The mighty lion
tn The word לַיִשׁ (layish) traditionally rendered “strong lion,” occurs only here and in Prov 30:30 and Isa 30:6. It has cognates in several of the Semitic languages, and so seems to indicate lion as king of the beasts.
perishes
tn The form of the verb is the Qal active participle; it stresses the characteristic action of the verb as if a standard universal truth.
for lack of prey,
and the cubs of the lioness
tn The text literally has “sons of the lioness.”
are scattered.
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