Job 4:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The old lion perisheth for lack of prey— Schultens imagines, that this want of prey was not so much owing to its scarcity, as to its being torn from the mouth and talons of this ravenous creature. But it may be imputed with more probability to his not daring to venture out of his den in search of prey, amidst the roar of thunder, the blaze of lightning, and the violence of the storm, that blast of God mentioned in the preceding verse. This sense seems to be confirmed by the word יתפרדו yithparadu which we render, are scattered abroad; the meaning of which is, they are so affrighted by the lightning and thunder, that, being separated, they fly every one a different way, and cannot find the path which leads to the den of the lioness their dam. See Schultens and Heath.