3 She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.
Ezekiel 19:3
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Nahum 2:11–13
11 Where is the lions’ lair or the feeding ground of the young lions, where the lion and lioness prowled with their cubs, with nothing to frighten them away? 12 The lion mauled enough for its cubs and strangled prey for the lioness. It filled its dens with the kill,…
Job 4:10–12
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Job 39:15–17
15 She forgets that a foot may crush them, or a wild animal may trample them. 16 She treats her young harshly, as if not her own, with no concern that her labor was in vain. 17 For God has deprived her of wisdom; He has not endowed her with understanding.
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Job 39:29–30
29 From there he spies out food; his eyes see it from afar. 30 His young ones feast on blood; and where the slain are, there he is.”
1 Esdras 4:23–25
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Job 39:3–5
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