Job 41:4
(40-28) Will he make a covenant with thee, that thou shouldest take him for a servant for ever?
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
In Context
3(40-27) Will he make many supplications unto thee? or will he speak soft words unto thee?
5(40-29) Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
Cross References
Genesis 1:28And God blessed them; and God said unto them: 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that creepeth upon the earth.'
Deuteronomy 15:17then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through his ear and into the door, and he shall be thy bondman for ever. And also unto thy bondwoman thou shalt do likewise.
Psalms 8:5(8-6) Yet Thou hast made him but little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
Matthew Henry on Job 41:2-11
Description of Leviathan. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? 2 Canst thou put a hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? 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? 5 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… Read the whole commentary →