Job 4:11

The mighty lion ¹  perishes ²  for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness ³  are scattered.

Ge 49:9; Nu 23:24; Nu 24:9; Job 1:19; Job 8:3,4; Job 27:14,15; Job 38:39; Ps 7:2; Ps 34:10; Jer 4:7; Ho 11:10; 2Ti 4:17

¹ tn The word לַיִשׁ (layish) traditionally rendered “strong lion,” occurs only here and in Prov 30:30 and Isa 30:6. It has cognates in several of the Semitic languages, and so seems to indicate lion as king of the beasts.

² tn The form of the verb is the Qal active participle; it stresses the characteristic action of the verb as if a standard universal truth.

³ tn The text literally has “sons of the lioness.”