Job 38:39 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁹Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,

Job 38:39 —

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Cross-References

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Psalms 104:21
The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
Job 4:10-11
The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. …
Psalms 145:15-16
The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. …
Psalms 34:10
The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 25-41)

Hitherto God had put such questions to Job as were proper to convince him of his ignorance and short-sightedness. Now he comes, in the same manner, to show his impotency and weakness. As it is but little that he knows, and therefore he ought not to arraign the divine counsels, so it is but little that he can do, and therefore he ought not to oppose the proceedings of Providence. Let him consider w…

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

(vv. 39)

39. At Job 38:39-39:30, the instincts of animals. Is it thou that givest it the instinct to hunt its prey? (Psa 104:21). appetite--literally, “life,” which depends on the appetite” (Job 33:20).