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# Connecting Statement:
The rhetorical question that begins with the words "Can you hunt" in verse 39 ends here.
# when they are crouching ... to lie in wait?
The rhetorical question that begins with the words "Can you hunt" in verse 39 ends here. This can be translated as a statement. "You know that you cannot hunt down ... when they are crouching ... to lie in wait." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])
# 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. Alternate translation: "to lie waiting for a victim" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])