The title of Roberts' short story, "Do Seek Their Meat from God" is a biblical allusion from the King James Bible, Psalm 104:21 which is "The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God". This verse, in biblical explanations means the God feeds every creatures fairly, not just sheeps and lambs, and lions roar in this case to thank the God for food given by him. However, in Roberts' short story, the title is interpreted different from the bible. In the story, panthers who roar, thanking the God for the human meat of a crying kid, get killed by the hunter who unintentionally saves his son. This is an unfair treatment to panthers as they lost their food because of settlers changing the environment and even if they get to find food, they get killed by the settlers. In the hunter's perspective, it is viewed as panthers are threatening the crying child and he gets to take out the gun to kill the panthers and save the child who he later figures out was his son. The irony is the cry of the child brought the child the meat of panther, while the roar of panthers brought them nothing in the end.
In short, the novel brings up the idea of "Is God really feeding every creatures fairly?" If God was really fair, the panthers wouldn't have died just because of the reason that they were searching for food. Or the novel can bring up the basic of idea of "Do God really exists in the first place?" Nevertheless, we can summarize the theme of the story as "The world is unfair" as the world was truly unfair to the panthers in the story.
