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 tie it with a rope through the nose or pierce its jaw with a spike? 3Will it beg you for mercy or implore you for pity? Will it agree to work for you, to be your slave for life? 5Can you make it a pet like a bird, or give it to your little girls to play with? 6Will merchants try to buy it to sell it in their shops?

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 20:31Ben-hadad’s officers said to him, “Sir, we have heard that the kings of Israel are merciful. So let’s humble ourselves by wearing burlap around our waists and putting ropes on our heads, and surrender to the king of Israel. Then perhaps he will let you live.”
• Genesis 1:28Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.”
• Psalms 8:5Yet you made them only a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor.
• Exodus 21:6If he does this, his master must present him before God. Then his master must take him to the door or doorpost and publicly pierce his ear with an awl. After that, the slave will serve his master for life.
• Deuteronomy 15:17In that case, take an awl and push it through his earlobe into the door. After that, he will be your servant for life. And do the same for your female servants.

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