He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
Cross References
Job 10:16Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.
Lamentations 3:9He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
Lamentations 3:11He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.
Hosea 13:7So like a lion I will pounce on them; like a leopard I will lurk by the path.
Treasury of Scripture
He was to me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
unto
Job 10:16
For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
Isaiah 38:13
I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Hosea 5:14
For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.
in secret
Psalm 10:9
He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
Psalm 17:12
Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.