New English Translation
Job 41:4
4Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life?
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 its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook? 3Will it make numerous supplications to you, will it speak to you with tender words? Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life? 5Can you play with it, like a bird, or tie it on a leash for your girls? 6Will partners bargain for it? Will they divide it 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 20:31His advisers said to him, “Look, we have heard that the kings of the Israelite dynasty are kind. Allow us to put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads and surrender to the king of Israel. Maybe he will spare our lives.”
- Genesis 1:28God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.”
- Psalms 8:5and make them a little less than the heavenly beings? You grant mankind honor and majesty;
- Exodus 21:6then his master must bring him to the judges, and he will bring him to the door or the doorposts, and his master will pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.
- Deuteronomy 15:17you shall take an awl and pierce a hole through his ear to the door. Then he will become your servant permanently (this applies to your female servant as well).
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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