Job 41:5
3 Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?
4 Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?
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?
7 Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?
- KJV
- Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
- WEB
- Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?
- ASV
- Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
- DARBY
- Wilt thou play with him as with a bird, and wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
- BLB
- Will you play with him like a bird, and leash him for your maidens?
- ÅB
- Kan du leke med den som med en fugl og binde den fast for dine små piker?
- OTB
- Vil du leke med ham som med en fugl,
Eller binde ham for dine unge piker? - B1930
- Kan du leke med den som med en fugl og binde den fast for dine små piker?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Judges 16:25–30
And while their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson to entertain us.” So they called Samson out of the prison to entertain them. And they stationed him between the pillars.
Read in contextJob 28:11
He stops up the sources of the streams to bring what is hidden to light.
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