Job 41:4
2 Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
3 Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?
Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?
5 Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?
6 Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?
- KJV
- Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
- WEB
- Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever?
- ASV
- Will he make a covenant with thee, That thou shouldest take him for a servant for ever?
- DARBY
- Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him as a bondman for ever?
- BLB
- Will he cut a covenant with you, to take him as a slave forever?
- ÅB
- Vil den gjøre en pakt med deg, så du kan få den til din slave for all tid?
- OTB
- Vil han inngå en avtale med deg?
Vil du ta ham som en tjener for all tid? - B1930
- Vil den gjøre en pakt med dig, så du kan få den til din træl for all tid?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Exodus 21:6
then his master is to bring him before the judges. And he shall take him to the door or doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he shall serve his master for life.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 15:17
then take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door, and he will become your servant for life. And treat your maidservant the same way.
Read in context1 Kings 20:31–34
Then the servants of Ben-hadad said to him, “Look now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful. Let us go out to the king of Israel with sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads. Perhaps he will spare your life.”
Read in contextGenesis 1:28
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”
Read in contextPsalms 8:5–6
You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor.
Read in context