All you wild animals in the fields, come and devour, all you wild animals in the forest!

Then four large beasts came up from the sea; they were different from one another.

a lion, mightiest ¹  of the beasts, who does not retreat from anything;

including all the sheep and cattle, as well as the wild animals, ¹ 

‘These large beasts, which are four in number, represent four kings who will arise from the earth.

you animals and all you cattle, you creeping things and birds,

You make it dark and night comes, ¹  during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around.

Bel ¹  kneels down, Nebo ²  bends low. Their images weigh down animals and beasts. ³  Your heavy images are burdensome to tired animals. ⁴ 

who teaches us ¹  more than ²  the wild animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

Why should we be regarded as beasts, and considered stupid ¹  in your sight?

Proud beasts ¹  have not set foot on it, and no lion has passed along it.

As for the rest of the beasts, their ruling authority had already been removed, though they were permitted to go on living ¹  for a time and a season.

You will laugh at destruction and famine ¹  and need not ²  be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

but, despite their wealth, people do not last, ¹  they are like animals ²  that perish. ³ 

Wealthy people do not understand; ¹  they are like animals ²  that perish. ³ 

A certain one of them, in fact, one of their own prophets, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” ¹ 

“Suppose I were to send wild animals through the land and kill its children, leaving it desolate, without travelers due to the wild animals.

As I stared ¹  I looked into it and saw four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, ²  and wild birds. ³ 

The wild animals go to their lairs, and in their dens they remain.

For the hills bring it food, ¹  where all the wild animals play.