Job 38:40 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

When through age and infirmity they cannot range abroad for prey, as the young lions do; but lie still in their dens, as if they were expecting their food from God, from whom also they receive it. To lie in wait; watching till some beast come that way upon which they may prey.

Job 38:40

40 When they couch in their dens, and abide in the covert to lie in wait?