Job 41:4

King James Version

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

Parallel Translations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Contextual Overview

¹ Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? ² Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? ³ Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee? ⁴ Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? ⁵ Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? ⁶ Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants? ⁷ Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears? ⁸ Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more. ⁹ Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him? ¹⁰ None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?

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
And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of the Lord , and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to 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?