God’s Word Translation
Job 41:4
4Will it make an agreement with you so that you can take it as your permanent slave?
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 ring through its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook? 3Will it plead with you for mercy or speak tenderly to you? Will it make an agreement with you so that you can take it as your permanent slave? 5Can you play with it like a bird or keep it on a leash for your girls? 6Will traders bargain over it and divide it 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 20:31His officers told him, “We have heard that the kings of Israel are merciful. Allow us to dress in sackcloth, put ropes around our necks, and go to the king of Israel. Maybe he’ll let you live.”
- Genesis 1:28God blessed them and said, “Be fertile, increase in number, fill the earth, and be its master. Rule the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that crawl on the earth.”
- Psalms 8:5You have made him a little lower than yourself. You have crowned him with glory and honor.
- Exodus 21:6then his master must bring him to God. The master must bring him to the door or the doorframe and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he will be his slave for life.
- Deuteronomy 15:17Then take an awl and pierce it through his ear lobe into a door, and he will be your slave for life. Do the same to a female slave ⌞if she doesn’t want to leave⌟.
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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