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Job 41:5
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Will you play with it as with a bird,Or will you bind it for your young women?
"Will you play with him as with a bird, Or will you bind him for your maidens?
Wylt thou take thy pastime with him as with a birde, wilt thou binde him for thy maydens?
Wilt thou play with him as with a bird, and wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
Will you play with him as with a bird, Or will you leash him for your maidens?
Will you play with him as with a bird; or will you tie him up for your maidens?
Will you play with Leviathan as you would play with a bird? Will you put a rope on him so that your girls can play with him?
Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?
Wilt thou play with him as with a birde? wilt thou binde him for thy maydens?
Wilt thou take thy pastyne wt him as with a byrde, or geue him vnto thy maydens,
Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women?
Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your maidens?
Wilt thou play with him as [with] a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
Can you play with it, like a bird, or tie it on a leash for your girls?
Can it be tied by the leg like a pet bird for little girls?
Who can strip off his [scaly] garment? Who can enter his jaws?
Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bynd him for thy maydes?
Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you keep him as a pet for your children?
"Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him [and put him on a leash] for your maidens?
Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?
Who can uncover the face of his garment? Who shall come within his double bridle?
Can you make it a pet like a bird, or give it to your little girls to play with?
Will you play with him as if he were a bird? Or will you put him on a rope for your young women?
Who will open the doors of his face? terror is round about his teeth.
Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?
Will you play with it as with a bird, or will you put it on leash for your girls?
Wilt thou sport with him, as with a little bird? Or wilt thou bind him, for thy maidens?
(40-24) Shalt thou play with him as with a bird, or tie him up for thy handmaids?
Will you play with it as with birds and put it on a leash for your girls?
Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on a leash for your girls?
"Will you play with him as with a bird, And tie him down for your young girls?
Can you make a pet of Leviathan as you would a bird or put it on a leash for your girls?
Will you tie him like a pet bird, like something to amuse your servant women?
Can you play with him like a bird or put him on a leash for your girls?
Whether thou schalt scorne hym as a brid, ethir schalt bynde hym to thin handmaidis?
Dost thou play with him as a bird? And dost thou bind him for thy damsels?
Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on leash for your maidens?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
play: Judges 16:25-30
bind: Job 28:11
Reciprocal: Job 39:10 - General Psalms 104:26 - to play
Cross-References
Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Wilt thou play with him as [with] a bird?.... In the hand or cage: leviathan plays in the sea, but there is no playing with him by land, Psalms 104:26;
or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? or young girls, as Mr. Broughton renders it; tie him in a string, as birds are for children to play with? Now, though crocodiles are very pernicious to children, and often make a prey of them when they approach too near the banks of the Nile, or whenever they have an opportunity of seizing them k; yet there is an instance of the child of an Egyptian woman that was brought up with one, and used to play with it l, though, when grown up, was killed by it; but no such instance can be given of the whale of any sort.
k Aelian. l. 10. c. 21. l Maxim. Tyr. Sermon. 38.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? - A bird that is tamed. The art of taming birds was doubtless early practiced, and they were kept for amusement. But the leviathan could not thus be tamed.
Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? - For their amusement. For such purposes doubtless, birds were caught and caged. There is great force in this question, on the supposition that the crocodile is intended. Nothing could be more incongruous than the idea of securing so rough and unsightly a monster for the amusement of tender and delicate females.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 41:5. Wilt thou play with him — Is he such a creature as thou canst tame; and of which thou canst make a pet, and give as a plaything to thy little girls? נערותיך naarotheycha; probably alluding to the custom of catching birds, tying a string to their legs, and giving them to children to play with; a custom execrable as ancient, and disgraceful as modern.
