Job 41:3

Amplified Bible

"Will he make many supplications to you [begging to be spared]? Or will he speak soft words to you [to coax you to treat him kindly]?

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Will it beg you for mercy or implore you for pity?

English Revised Version
Will he make many supplications unto thee? or will he speak soft words unto thee?

Update Bible Version
Will he make many supplications to you? Or will he speak soft words to you?

New Century Version
Will it keep begging you for mercy and speak to you with gentle words?

New English Translation
Will it make numerous supplications to you, will it speak to you with tender words?

Webster's Bible Translation
Will he make many supplications to thee? will he speak soft [words] to thee?

World English Bible
Will he make many petitions to you? Or will he speak soft words to you?

English Standard Version
Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak to you soft words?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether he schal multiplie preieris to thee, ether schal speke softe thingis to thee?

Berean Standard Bible
Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?

Contemporary English Version
Will it beg for mercy?

American Standard Version
Will he make many supplications unto thee? Or will he speak soft words unto thee?

Bible in Basic English
Will he make prayers to you, or say soft words to you?

Complete Jewish Bible
Who has given me anything and made me pay it back? Everything belongs to me under all of heaven.

Darby Translation
Will he make many supplications unto thee? or will he speak softly unto thee?

Easy-to-Read Version
Will he beg you to let him go free? Will he speak to you with gentle words?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Who hath given Me anything beforehand, that I should repay him? Whatsoever is under the whole heaven is Mine.

King James Version (1611)
Will he make many supplications vnto thee? will he speake soft words vnto thee?

New Life Bible
Will he beg you to be good to him? Will he speak soft words to you?

New Revised Standard
Will it make many supplications to you? Will it speak soft words to you?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Will he make many prayers vnto thee, or speake thee faire?

George Lamsa Translation
Will he make many supplications to you? Or will he speak flattering words to you?

Good News Translation
Will he beg you to let him go? Will he plead with you for mercy?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Will he multiply unto thee supplications, or will he speak unto thee softly?

Douay-Rheims Bible
(40-22) Will he make many supplications to thee, or speak soft words to thee?

Revised Standard Version
Will he make many supplications to you? Will he speak to you soft words?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Wyl he make many faire wordes with thee [thinkest thou] or flatter thee?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I will not be silent because of him: though because of his power one shall pity his antagonist.

Christian Standard Bible®
Will he beg you for mercyor speak softly to you?

Hebrew Names Version
Will he make many petitions to you? Or will he speak soft words to you?

King James Version
Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?

Lexham English Bible
Will it make numerous pleas for mercy to you? Or will it speak gentle words to you?

Literal Translation
Will he multiply pleas for help to you; or will he speak soft words to you?

Young's Literal Translation
Doth he multiply unto thee supplications? Doth he speak unto thee tender things?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Wyll he make many fayre wordes with the (thynkest thou) or flatre the:

New American Standard Bible
"Will he make many pleas to you, Or will he speak to you gentle words?

New King James Version
Will he make many supplications to you? Will he speak softly to you?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Will he make many supplications to you, Or will he speak to you soft words?

Legacy Standard Bible
Will it make many supplications to you,Or will he speak to you soft words?

Contextual Overview

¹"Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord? ²"Can you put a rope [made] of rushes into his nose Or pierce his jaw through with a hook? ³"Will he make many supplications to you [begging to be spared]? Or will he speak soft words to you [to coax you to treat him kindly]?⁴"Will he make a covenant or an arrangement with you? Will you take him for your servant forever? ⁵"Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him [and put him on a leash] for your maidens? ⁶"Will traders bargain over him? Will they divide him up among the merchants? ⁷"Can you fill his skin with harpoons, Or his head with fishing spears? ⁸"Lay your hand on him; Remember the battle [with him]; you will not do such [an ill-advised thing] again! ⁹"Behold, his [assailant's] hope and expectation [of defeating Leviathan] is false; Will not one be overwhelmed even at the sight of him? ¹⁰"No one is so fierce [and foolhardy] that he dares to stir up Leviathan; Who then is he who can stand before Me [or dares to contend with Me, the beast's creator]?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 55:21, Proverbs 15:1, Proverbs 18:23, Proverbs 25:15, Isaiah 30:10

Cross-References

Genesis 41:4
Then the ugly and gaunt and raw-boned cows ate up the seven sleek and fat cows. Then Pharaoh awoke.

Genesis 41:20
"And the lean and ugly cows ate up the first seven fat cows.

Genesis 41:21
"Yet when they had devoured them, it could not be detected that they had eaten them, because they were still as thin and emaciated as before. Then I awoke [but again I fell asleep and dreamed].

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Will he make many supplications unto thee?.... To cease pursuing him, or to let him go when taken, or to use him well and not take away his life; no, he is too spirited and stouthearted to ask any favour, it is below him;

will he speak soft [words] unto thee? smooth and flattering ones, for the above purposes? he will not: this is a figurative way of speaking.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Will he make many supplications unto thee? - In the manner of a captive begging for his life. That is, will he quietly submit to you? Prof. Lee supposes that there is an allusion here to the well-known cries of the dolphin when taken; but it is not necessary to suppose such an allusion. The idea is, that the animal here referred to would not tamely submit to his captor.

Will he speak soft words unto thee? - Pleading for his life in tones of tender and plaintive supplication.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 41:3. Will he make many supplications — There are several allusions in these verses to matters of which we know nothing.