Bible verse

Job 38:39

Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions

Job 38:39 · BSB

Job 38:39 in context

The verses around it, from Job 38.

35 Can you send the lightning bolts on their way? Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?

36 Who has put wisdom in the heart or given understanding to the mind?

37 Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Or who can tilt the water jars of the heavens

38 when the dust hardens into a mass and the clods of earth stick together?

39 Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions

40 when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait in the thicket?

41 Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?

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Job 38:39 in other translations

KJV

Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,

ASV

Canst thou hunt the prey for the lioness, Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

ERV

Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lioness? or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

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