Job 37:8
The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens.
BSB
ASV
Then the beasts go into coverts, And remain in their dens.
KJV
Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.
Then the beasts go into dens - In the winter. This fact appears to have been early observed, that in the season of cold the wild animals withdrew into caves, and that many of them became torpid. This fact Elihu adverts to as an illustration of the wisdom and greatness of God. The proof of his superintending care was seen in the fact that they withdrew from the cold in which they would perish, and that provision is made for their continuance in life at a time when they cannot obtain the food by which they ordinarily subsist.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Job 38:40when they crouch in their dens and lie in wait in the thicket?
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Behold, the people rise like a lioness; they rouse themselves like a lion, not resting until they devour their prey and drink the blood of the slain.”
He crouches, he lies down like a lion; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him? Blessed are those who bless you and cursed are those who curse you.”
Judah is a young lion—my son, you return from the prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness, who dares to rouse him?
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Psalms 104:22The sun rises, and they withdraw; they lie down in their dens.
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Your guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows…
Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.
Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.