Job 41:5

3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?

4 Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

6 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?

7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish 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 it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.

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  • Job 28:11

    He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.

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