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Literal Standard Version

Job 37:8

And the beast enters into [its] lair, || And it continues in its habitations.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Animals;   God;   God Continued...;   Meteorology and Celestial Phenomena;   Religion;   Thompson Chain Reference - Dens;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Beasts;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Nature, Natural;   Testimony;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Den;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elihu;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Den;   Place;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The wild animals enter their lairsand stay in their dens.
Hebrew Names Version
Then the animals go into coverts, And remain in their dens.
King James Version
Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.
English Standard Version
Then the beasts go into their lairs, and remain in their dens.
New Century Version
The animals take cover from the rain and stay in their dens.
New English Translation
The wild animals go to their lairs, and in their dens they remain.
Amplified Bible
"Then the beast goes into its lair And remains in its hiding place.
New American Standard Bible
"Then the animal goes into its lair And remains in its den.
World English Bible
Then the animals go into coverts, And remain in their dens.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the beastes go into the denne, and remaine in their places.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then the beast goes into its lairAnd dwells in its den.
Berean Standard Bible
The wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens.
Contemporary English Version
and they force animals to seek shelter.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then the animals go into their lairs and hibernate in their dens.
Darby Translation
And the wild beast goeth into its lair, and they remain in their dens.
Easy-to-Read Version
The animals run into their dens and stay there.
George Lamsa Translation
Then the wild beasts go into their lurking places, and remain in their dens.
Good News Translation
The wild animals go to their dens.
Lexham English Bible
Then the animal goes into its den, and it remains in its den.
Literal Translation
Then the beast goes into its lair, and they stay in their dens.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The beestes crepe in to their dennes, & take their rest.
American Standard Version
Then the beasts go into coverts, And remain in their dens.
Bible in Basic English
Then the beasts go into their holes, and take their rest.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then the beasts go into coverts, and remain in their dens.
King James Version (1611)
Then the beastes goe into dennes: and remaine in their places.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The beastes creepe into their dennes, and remaine in their places.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the wild beasts come in under the covert, and rest in their lair.
English Revised Version
Then the beasts go into coverts, and remain in their dens.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
An vnresonable beeste schal go in to his denne, and schal dwelle in his caue, `ethir derke place.
Update Bible Version
Then the beasts go into coverts, And remain in their dens.
Webster's Bible Translation
Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.
New King James Version
The beasts go into dens, And remain in their lairs.
New Living Translation
The wild animals take cover and stay inside their dens.
New Life Bible
Then the wild animals go to their holes, and stay where they live.
New Revised Standard
Then the animals go into their lairs and remain in their dens.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So then the wild-beast hath gone into covert, and, in its lairs, doth it remain.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Then the beast shall go into his covert, and shall abide in his den.
Revised Standard Version
Then the beasts go into their lairs, and remain in their dens.
Young's Literal Translation
And enter doth the beast into covert, And in its habitations it doth continue.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Then the beast goes into its lair And remains in its den.

Contextual Overview

6For He says to snow: Be [on] the earth. And the small rain and great rain of His power. 7Into the hand of every man he seals, || For the knowledge by all men of His work. 8And the beast enters into [its] lair, || And it continues in its habitations.9From the inner chamber comes a windstorm, || And from scatterings winds—cold, 10From the breath of God is frost given, || And the breadth of waters is constricted, 11Indeed, by filling He presses out a cloud, [and] His light scatters a cloud. 12And it is turning itself around by His counsels, || For their doing all He commands them, || On the face of the habitable earth. 13Whether for a rod, or for His land, || Or for kindness—He causes it to come.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 104:22

Cross-References

Genesis 37:3
And Israel has loved Joseph more than any of his sons, for he [is] a son of his old age, and has made for him a long coat;
Genesis 37:4
and his brothers see that their father has loved him more than any of his brothers, and they hate him, and have not been able to speak [to] him peaceably.
Genesis 37:6
And he says to them, "Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:
Genesis 37:27
Come, and we sell him to the Ishmaelites, and our hands are not on him, for he [is] our brother—our flesh"; and his brothers listen.
Genesis 37:28
And Midianite merchantmen pass by and they draw out and bring up Joseph out of the pit, and sell Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver, and they bring Joseph into Egypt.
Genesis 49:26
Your father's blessings have been mighty || Above the blessings of my progenitors, || To the limit of the perpetual heights || They are for the head of Joseph, || And for the crown of the one || Separate [from] his brothers.
Exodus 2:14
And he says, "Who set you for a head and judge over us? Are you saying [it] to slay me as you have slain the Egyptian?" And Moses fears and says, "Surely the thing has been known."
1 Samuel 10:27
and the sons of worthlessness have said, "How can this one save us?" And they despise him, and have not brought a present to him; and he is as one being deaf.
1 Samuel 17:28
And Eliab, his eldest brother, hears when he speaks to the men, and the anger of Eliab burns against David, and he says, "Why [is] this—[that] you have come down? And to whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I have known your pride, and the evil of your heart—for you have come down to see the battle."
Psalms 118:22
A stone the builders refused || Has become head of a corner.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then the beasts go into dens,.... When snow and rains are on the earth in great abundance, then the wild beasts of the field, not being able to prowl about, betake themselves to dens; where they lie in wait, lurking for any prey that may pass by, from whence they spring and seize it;

and remain in their places; until the snow and rains are finished. As for other beasts, Olaus Magnus m observes, that when such large snows fall, that trees are covered with them, and the tender branches bend under the weight of them, they will come and abide under them, as in shady places, in great security, sheltered from the cold wind. The former may put us in mind of great personages, comparable to beasts of prey for their savageness and cruelty, who, when the day of God's wrath and vengeance is come, will flee to rocks and mountains, dens and caverns, there to hide themselves from it; Revelation 6:15.

m Ut supra. (De Ritu Gent. Septentr. l. 19. c. 15.)

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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. In that torpid and inactive state, they need little food, and remain often for months with almost no nourishment.


 
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