Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 4:10 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 10. 10The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
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Role in This Section
Job 4:10 advances the thought unit with the words “The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young….” Eliphaz states “The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young…” as one poetic claim in Eliphaz States a Simple Sowing-and-Reaping Rule.
Read It With
- Job 4:7–4:11
Read Job 4:10 with 4:7–4:11. Read alone, “The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young…” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Eliphaz argues from experience that the innocent do not perish while those who sow trouble reap destruction, illustrating the claim with broken lions.
Why It Needs Context
Job 4:10 depends on 4:7–4:11; isolating “The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young…” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Eliphaz and “Eliphaz States a Simple Sowing-and-Reaping Rule.”
Read Job 4:7–11 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 4:7–4:11 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Eliphaz States a Simple Sowing-and-Reaping Rule.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 7. 7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
Verse 8. 8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
Verse 9. 9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
Verse 10. 10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
Verse 11. 11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.
Continue in Context
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Read Job 4:7–4:11 — Eliphaz States a Simple Sowing-and-Reaping RuleSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 4:7–4:11, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
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Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 4:7–4:11
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