Bible verse
The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
Job 4:11 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 4.
7 Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
8 As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.
9 By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.
10 The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.
11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.
12 Now a word came to me secretly; my ears caught a whisper of it.
13 In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
14 fear and trembling came over me and made all my bones shudder.
15 Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.
KJV
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.
ASV
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, And the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.
ERV
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.
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