Job 41:4

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 cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? 3Will he beg you for mercy or speak softly to you? Will he make a covenant with you so that you can take him as a slave forever? 5Can you play with him like a bird or put him on a leash for your girls? 6Will traders bargain for him or divide him among the merchants?

Job 41:4 word by word

הֲיִכְרֹ֣ת בְּרִ֣ית עִמָּ֑ךְ תִּ֝קָּחֶ֗נּוּ לְעֶ֣בֶד עוֹלָֽם׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Will he makeכָּרַתkârath · to cut: make(covenant)H3772
• a covenantבְּרִיתberîyth · covenantH1285
• with thee? wilt thou takeלָקַחlâqach · to take: takeH3947
• him for a servantעֶ֫בֶד‛ebed · servant/slaveH5650
• for everעוֹלָם‛ôlâm ‛ôlâm · forever: enduringH5769

Cross-references for Job 41:4

• 1 Kings 20:31His servants said to him, “Consider this: we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. So let’s put sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads, and let’s go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will spare your life.”
• Genesis 1:28God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth.”
• Psalms 8:5You made him little less than God and crowned him with glory and honor.
• Exodus 21:6his master is to bring him to the judges and then bring him to the door or doorpost. His master will pierce his ear with an awl, and he will serve his master for life.
• Deuteronomy 15:17take an awl and pierce through his ear into the door, and he will become your slave for life. Also treat your female slave the same way.

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

Topics related to Job 41:4

• God

In the dictionaries

• Comely
• Iron
• Lay
• Leap
• Leviathan
• Covenant, in the Old Testament
• Night-Monster

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