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

2Canst thou put a rope into his nose? or pierce his jaw through with a hook? 3Will he make many supplications unto thee? or will he speak soft words unto thee? Will he make a covenant with thee, that thou shouldest take him for a servant for ever? 5Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? 6Shall the bands of fishermen make traffic of him? shall they part him among the merchants?

Job 41:4 word by word

הֲיִכְרֹ֣ת בְּרִ֣ית עִמָּ֑ךְ תִּ֝קָּחֶ֗נּוּ לְעֶ֣בֶד עוֹלָֽם׃Read the interlinear

Cross-references for Job 41:4

• 1 Kings 20:31And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, we pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.
• Genesis 1:28And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
• Psalms 8:5For thou hast made him but little lower than God, and crownest him with glory and honour.
• Exodus 21:6then his master shall bring him unto God, and shall bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.
• Deuteronomy 15:17then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise.

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