Text -- Job 4:11 (NET)

4:11 The mighty lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 4:11

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.”