Setting forth how the beasts of chase told the lion to trust in God and cease from exerting himself.
A number of beasts of chase in a pleasant valley were harassed by a lion.
Inasmuch as the lion was (springing) from ambush and carrying them away, that pasturage had become unpleasant to them all.
They made a plot: they came to the lion, saying, “We will keep thee full-fed by means of a (fixed) allowance.
Do not go after any prey beyond thy allowance, in order that this grass may not become bitter to us.”
