EasyEnglish Bible 2018
Job 41:4
4They will not make any agreement with you. You cannot make them your slaves to work for you as long as they live.
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 tie a rope through their noses? Can you put a hook into their mouths. 3No! They will not ask you nicely to be kind and let them go free. They will not make any agreement with you. You cannot make them your slaves to work for you as long as they live. 5Leviathan is not something to enjoy at home, like a bird. You cannot tie it with a rope, so that your girls can play with it. 6Traders do not buy it at the market. They do not cut it up to sell it.
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 20:31Some of Ben-Hadad's officers said to him, ‘We have heard that the family of kings who rule Israel are kind men. We should show that we are sorry. We will tie sackcloth around our bodies. We will put ropes around our heads. Then maybe King Ahab will let you live.’
- Genesis 1:28God blessed them. He said to them, ‘Give birth to children. Grow in number. Fill the earth and rule over it. Rule over the fish in the sea. Rule over the birds in the sky. Rule over every different kind of living animal that moves along the ground.’
- Psalms 8:5You have made their place a little below God himself. You have given them honour, like kings.
- Exodus 21:6Then his master must take the slave to stand in front of the judges. He must lead the slave to stand beside the door, or the wood that holds the door. Then the master must push the sharp point of a tool through the slave's ear. After that, he will serve his master for all his life.
- Deuteronomy 15:17If he says that, you must take a tool with a sharp point. Push it through his ear, into your door. After that, he will be your servant for his whole life. Do the same thing for any female servant who wants to stay with you.
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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