Job 41:4

Amplified Bible

"Will he make a covenant or an arrangement with you? Will you take him for your servant forever?

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Will it agree to work for you, to be your slave for life?

English Revised Version
Will he make a covenant with thee, that thou shouldest take him for a servant for ever?

Update Bible Version
Will he make a covenant with you, That you should take him for a slave forever?

New Century Version
Will it make an agreement with you and let you take it as your slave for life?

New English Translation
Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life?

Webster's Bible Translation
Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

World English Bible
Will he make a covenant with you, That you should take him for a servant forever?

English Standard Version
Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether he schal make couenaunt with thee, and `thou schalt take him a seruaunt euerlastinge?

Berean Standard Bible
Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?

Contemporary English Version
Will it surrender as a slave for life?

American Standard Version
Will he make a covenant with thee, That thou shouldest take him for a servant for ever?

Bible in Basic English
Will he make an agreement with you, so that you may take him as a servant for ever?

Complete Jewish Bible
"I have more to say about his limbs, his strong talk, and his matchless strength.

Darby Translation
Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him as a bondman for ever?

Easy-to-Read Version
Will he make an agreement with you and promise to serve you forever?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Would I keep silence concerning his boastings, or his proud talk, or his fair array of words?

King James Version (1611)
Will he make a couenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a seruant for euer?

New Life Bible
Will he make an agreement with you to take him and make him your servant forever?

New Revised Standard
Will it make a covenant with you to be taken as your servant forever?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Will hee make a couenant with thee? and wilt thou take him as a seruant for euer?

George Lamsa Translation
Will he make a covenant with you? Or will you count him as a servant for ever?

Good News Translation
Will he make an agreement with you and promise to serve you forever?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Will he solemnise a covenant with thee? Wilt thou take him for a life-long servant?

Douay-Rheims Bible
(40-23) Will he make a covenant with thee, and wilt thou take him to be a servant for ever,

Revised Standard Version
Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant for ever?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Wyll he make a couenaunt with thee? or wilt thou take him for a seruaunt for euer?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Who will open the face of his garment? and who can enter within the fold of his breastplate?

Christian Standard Bible®
Will he make a covenant with youso that you can take him as a slave forever?

Hebrew Names Version
Will he make a covenant with you, That you should take him for a servant forever?

King James Version
Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

Lexham English Bible
Will it make a covenant with you? Will you take it as a slave forever?

Literal Translation
Will he cut a covenant with you; will you take him for a slave forever?

Young's Literal Translation
Doth he make a covenant with thee? Dost thou take him for a servant age-during?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Wyll he make a couenaunt with the? Or, art thou able for to compell him to do the contynuall seruyce?

New American Standard Bible
"Will he make a covenant with you? Will you take him as a servant forever?

New King James Version
Will he make a covenant with you? Will you take him as a servant forever?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Will he make a covenant with you? Will you take him for a servant forever?

Legacy Standard Bible
Will it cut a covenant with you?Will you take it for a slave forever?

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

Will he: 1 Kings 20:31-34

wilt thou: Genesis 1:28, Psalms 8:5, Psalms 8:6

a servant: Exodus 21:6, Deuteronomy 15:17

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 11:1 - Make Proverbs 6:7 - General

Cross-References

1 Kings 3:15
Then Solomon awoke, and he realized that it was a dream. He came [back] to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; he offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and he prepared a feast for all his servants.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Will he make a covenant with thee?.... To live in friendship or servitude, as follows;

wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? oblige him to serve thee for life, or reduce him to perpetual bondage; signifying, that he is not to be tamed or brought into subjection; which is true of the whale, but not of the crocodile; for several authors i speak of them as making a sort of a truce with the priests of Egypt for a certain time, and of their being tamed so as to be handled, and fed, and brought up in the house.

i Herodot, ut supra, (Euterpe, sive, l. 2.) c. 69. Aelian. l. 8. c. 2. & l. 10. c. 21. Solin. c. 45. Plin. l. 8. c. 46.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Will 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 untamable animal, and could not be reduced, as many others could, to domestic use.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 41:4. Will 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?