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# General Information:
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Yahweh uses a question to emphasize that he provides food for the ravens and Job does not. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])
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# Connecting Statement:
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Yahweh continues to challenge Job.
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# Who provides victims ... for lack of food?
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This can be translated as a statement. Alternate translation: "Tell me who provides victims ... for lack of food." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion]])
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# provides victims
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"provides food." This refers to animals that ravens look for and can eat.
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# ravens
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large birds with shiny black feathers that feed on dead animals
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# cry out to God
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The implied information is that the ravens are crying out for food. Alternate translation: "cry to God for help" or "cry out for God to give them food" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])
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# stagger about
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This means to walk around in an unsteady way.
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# for lack of food
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"because they have no food" or "because they have nothing to eat"
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