He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
KJV
Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
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Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey,.... Or "the likeness of him is as a lion" (i); meaning Saul, as Kimchi interprets it; or everyone of them that compassed them about, as Aben Ezra observes; sometimes wicked and persecuting princes are compared to lions, for their strength and cruelty; see
Pro 28:15
; so the devil is called a roaring lion,
Pe1 5:8
; and the antichristian beast is said to have the mouth of a lion,
Rev 13:2
;
and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places; to leap upon its prey, and seize it at once, as it has opportunity; this denotes the secret and insidious method which the enemies of Christ take to do mischief; see
Psa 10:9
.
(i) "similitudo ejus, vel cujusque est tanquam leonis", Pagninus, Montanus, Junius & Tremellius; so Musculus, Gejerus, Michaelis.
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