Job 41:4
Does he make a covenant with you? Do you take him for a perpetual servant?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
In Context
3Does he multiply supplications to you? Does he speak tender things to you?
5Do you play with him as a bird? And do you bind him for your girls?
Cross References
Genesis 1:28And God blesses them, and God says to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over [the] fish of the sea, and over [the] bird of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping on the earth.”
Deuteronomy 15:17then you have taken the awl, and have put [it] through his ear, and through the door, and he has been a perpetual servant to you; and you also do so to your handmaid.
Psalms 8:5You make him a little lower than the gods [[ or God]], || And surround him with glory and majesty.
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 →