Job 37 · Verse 8

Job 37:8

Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.
Job 37:8, King James Version

Job 37:8 in other translations

BSBThe wild animals enter their lairs; they settle down in their dens.
WEBThen the animals take cover, and remain in their dens.
ASVThen the beasts go into coverts, And remain in their dens.
YLTAnd enter doth the beast into covert, And in its habitations it doth continue.
DARBYAnd the wild beast goeth into its lair, and they remain in their dens.
BBEThen the beasts go into their holes, and take their rest.
WebsterThen the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.

What does Job 37:8 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
8. remain--rest in their lairs. It is beautifully ordered that during the cold, when they could not obtain food, many lie torpid, a state wherein they need no food. The desolation of the fields, at God's bidding, is poetically graphic.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 37:1-13

The changes of the weather are the subject of a great deal of our thoughts and common talk; but how seldom do we think and speak of these things, as Elihu, with a regard to God, the director of them! We must notice the glory of God, not only in the thunder and lightning, but in the more common and less awful changes of the weather; as the snow and rain. Nature directs all creatures to shelter themselves from a…

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Job 37:8 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַתָּבֹ֣אva.ta.Vo'and it wentH935
חַיָּ֣הchai.Yahan animalH2416
בְמוֹ\־ve.mov-inH1119
אָ֑רֶב'A.reva lairH695
וּבִמְע֖וֹנֹתֶ֣יהָu.vim.'o.no.Tei.haand in dens itsH4585
תִשְׁכֹּֽן\׃tish.Konit dwellsH7931

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 37:8

  • Psalms 104:22

    The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.

  • Job 38:40

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

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ps 104:22

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 37:7

    He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.

  • Job 37:8

    Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.

  • Job 37:9

    Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.

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Job 37:8 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		La bestia se entrará en su escondrijo, y estaráse en sus moradas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Les bêtes sauvages rentrent dans leurs gîtes, et demeurent dans leurs repaires.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und das Wild geht in sein Versteck und bleibt in seinen Höhlen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Ingredietur bestia latibulum, et in antro suo morabitur.