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Job 41:4
4Will he make a covenant or an arrangement with you? Will you take him for your servant forever?
Job 41:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
- New International Version (NIV)Will it make an agreement with you for you to take it as your slave for life?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Will he make a covenant with you? Will you take him as a servant forever?
Context of Job 41:4
2Can you put a rope [made] of rushes into his nose Or pierce his jaw through with a hook? 3Will he make many supplications to you [begging to be spared]? Or will he speak soft words to you [to coax you to treat him kindly]? Will he make a covenant or an arrangement with you? Will you take him for your servant forever? 5Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him [and put him on a leash] for your maidens? 6Will traders bargain over him? Will they divide him up among the merchants?
Read all of Job 41Job 41:4 word by word
הֲיִכְרֹ֣ת בְּרִ֣ית עִמָּ֑ךְ תִּ֝קָּחֶ֗נּוּ לְעֶ֣בֶד עוֹלָֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 41:4
- 1 Kings 20:31But his servants said to him, “We have heard that the kings of the house (royal line) of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth around our loins and ropes on our necks [as symbols of submission], and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps he will spare your life.”
- Genesis 1:28And God blessed them [granting them certain authority] and said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subjugate it [putting it under your power]; and rule over (dominate) the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and every living thing that moves upon the earth.”
- Psalms 8:5Yet You have made him a little lower than God, And You have crowned him with glory and honor.
- Exodus 21:6then his master shall bring him to God [that is, to the judges who act in God’s name], then he shall bring him to the door or doorpost. And his master shall pierce his ear with an awl (strong needle); and he shall serve him for life.
- Deuteronomy 15:17then take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door, and he shall [willingly] be your servant always. Also you shall do the same for your maidservant.
Commentaries on Job 41:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4Will he make a covenant - Canst thou hire him as thou wouldst a servant, who is to be so attached to thy family as to have his ear bored, that he may abide in thy house for ever? Is not this an allusion to the law, Exodus 21:1-6;?Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4Will he make a covenant with thee? - That is, will he submit himself to thee, and enter into a compact to serve thee? Such a compact was made by those who agreed to serve another; and the idea here is, that the animal here referred to could not be reduced to such service - that is, could not be tamed. Wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? - Canst thou so subdue him that he will be a perpetual slave? The meaning of all this is, that he was an…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. Can he be tamed for domestic use (so Job 39:10-12)?Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 41
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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