Job 37:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.

Job 37:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 104:22
The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.
Job 38:40
When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?

Topics

Animals Atheism Attributes of God Beasts Cattle Clean and Unclean Animals Creation Devotion

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-13)

The changes and extremities of the weather, wet or dry, hot or cold, are the subject of a great deal of our common talk and observation; but how seldom do we think and speak of these things, as Elihu does here, with an awful regard to God the director of them, who shows his power and serves the purposes of his providence by them! We must take notice of the glory of God, not only in the thunder and…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. remain--rest in their lairs. It is beautifully ordered that during the cold, when they could not obtain food, many lie torpid, a state wherein they need no food. The desolation of the fields, at God’s bidding, is poetically graphic.