These massive creatures became less active and strong as they grew larger and larger; but they required such an enormous amount of food and the land was so overrun by them that they literally starved to death and became extinct — they lacked the intelligence to cope with the situation.
Close in meaning, found by a language model. A match does not mean the teachings are the same.
The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.
For having passed wisdom by, not only were they disabled from recognising the things which are good, but they also left behind them for their life a monument of their folly, to the end that where they stumbled, they might fail even to be unseen;
“Then you preserved two living creatures. The one you called Behemoth, and the other you called Leviathan. You separated the one from the other; for the seventh part, namely, where the water was gathered together, might not hold them both. To Behemoth, you gave one part, which was dried up on the third day, that he should dwell in it, in which are a thousand hills; but to Leviathan you gave the seventh part, namely, the watery part. You have kept them to be devoured by whom you wish, when you wish.