# Connecting Statement:

Yahweh continues to challenge Job.

# General Information:

Yahweh uses a question to emphasize that he knows how to feed the lions and Job does not. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])

# Can you hunt down ... to lie in wait?

This can be translated as a statement. AT: "Tell me if you can hunt down ... to lie in wait." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])

# a victim

"prey." This is an animal that a lion could eat.

# lioness

This is a female lion.

# appetite

"hunger"

# of her young lion cubs

"of young lions." These are young lions that are old enough to hunt for themselves.

# dens

A "den" is a lair or shelter where lions live.

# sheltering in hiding

"hiding in a thicket." Lions hide in thick vegetation when hunting their prey.

# to lie in wait

The implied information is that the lions are hiding and waiting for their prey to come near. AT: "to lie waiting for a victim" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])

# translationWords

* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/lion]]