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Job 4:11

New International Reader's Version

Lions die because they don’t have any food. Then their cubs are scattered.

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Judah, you are like a lion’s cub. You return from hunting, my son. Like a lion, you lie down and sleep. You are like a mother lion. Who dares to wake you up?

Suddenly a strong wind blew in from the desert. It struck the four corners of the house. The house fell down on your children. Now all of them are dead. I’m the only one who has escaped to tell you!”

Their children must pay back what they took from poor people. Their own hands must give back the wealth they stole.

Sinners are like animals that have powerful teeth. But I took from their mouths the people they had caught.

“Do you hunt for food for mother lions? Do you satisfy the hunger of their cubs?

God saves needy people from the cutting words of their enemies. He saves them from their power.

Their children aren’t safe at all. They lose their case in court. No one speaks up for them.

The lions may grow weak and hungry. But those who look to the Lord have every good thing they need.

My children, come. Listen to me. I will teach you to have respect for the Lord.

If you don’t, they will tear me apart as if they were lions. They will rip me to pieces so that no one can save me.

Lions have come out of their dens. Those who destroy nations have begun to march out. They have left their place to destroy your land completely. Your towns will be broken to pieces. No one will live in them.

I will roar like a lion against my enemies. Then the Lord’s people will follow him. When he roars, his children will come home trembling with fear. They will return from the west.

The Israelites are going to wake up like a female lion. They are going to get up like a male lion. They are like a lion that won’t rest until it eats what it has caught. They are like a lion that won’t rest until it drinks the blood of what it has killed.”

Like a male lion they lie down and sleep. They are like a female lion. Who dares to wake them up? “May those who bless you be blessed! May those who curse you be cursed!”

The Lord stood at my side. He gave me the strength to preach the whole message. Then all the Gentiles heard it. I was saved from the lion’s mouth.




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