38:39 “Do you hunt prey for the lioness,
and satisfy the appetite 1 of the lions,
4:11 The mighty lion 2 perishes 3 for lack of prey,
and the cubs of the lioness 4 are scattered.
1 tn Heb “fill up the life of.”
2 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.
3 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.
4 tn The text literally has “sons of the lioness.”