Job 41:5

The NET Bible®

Can you play with it, like a bird, or tie it on a leash for your girls?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Can you play with him like a birdor put him on a leash for your girls?

Hebrew Names Version
Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?

King James Version
Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

English Standard Version
Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on a leash for your girls?

New Century Version
Can you make a pet of Leviathan as you would a bird or put it on a leash for your girls?

Amplified Bible
"Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him [and put him on a leash] for your maidens?

New American Standard Bible
"Will you play with him as with a bird, And tie him down for your young girls?

World English Bible
Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bynd him for thy maydes?

Legacy Standard Bible
Will you play with it as with a bird,Or will you bind it for your young women?

Berean Standard Bible
Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?

Contemporary English Version
Can it be tied by the leg like a pet bird for little girls?

Complete Jewish Bible
Who can strip off his [scaly] garment? Who can enter his jaws?

Darby Translation
Wilt thou play with him as with a bird, and wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

Easy-to-Read Version
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?

George Lamsa Translation
Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you keep him as a pet for your children?

Good News Translation
Will you tie him like a pet bird, like something to amuse your servant women?

Lexham English Bible
Will you play with it as with birds and put it on a leash for your girls?

Literal Translation
Will you play with him as with a bird; or will you tie him up for your maidens?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Wilt thou take thy pastyne wt him as with a byrde, or geue him vnto thy maydens,

American Standard Version
Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

Bible in Basic English
Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Who can uncover the face of his garment? Who shall come within his double bridle?

King James Version (1611)
Wilt thou play with him as with a birde? wilt thou binde him for thy maydens?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Wylt thou take thy pastime with him as with a birde, wilt thou binde him for thy maydens?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Who will open the doors of his face? terror is round about his teeth.

English Revised Version
Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether thou schalt scorne hym as a brid, ethir schalt bynde hym to thin handmaidis?

Update Bible Version
Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your maidens?

Webster's Bible Translation
Wilt thou play with him as [with] a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

New King James Version
Will you play with him as with a bird, Or will you leash him for your maidens?

New Living Translation
Can you make it a pet like a bird, or give it to your little girls to play with?

New Life Bible
Will you play with him as if he were a bird? Or will you put him on a rope for your young women?

New Revised Standard
Will you play with it as with a bird, or will you put it on leash for your girls?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Wilt thou sport with him, as with a little bird? Or wilt thou bind him, for thy maidens?

Douay-Rheims Bible
(40-24) Shalt thou play with him as with a bird, or tie him up for thy handmaids?

Revised Standard Version
Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on leash for your maidens?

Young's Literal Translation
Dost thou play with him as a bird? And dost thou bind him for thy damsels?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Will you play with him as with a bird, Or will you bind him for your maidens?

Contextual Overview

¹ "Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope? ² Can you put a cord through its nose, or pierce its jaw with a hook? ³ Will it make numerous supplications to you, will it speak to you with tender words? ⁴ Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life? ⁵ Can you play with it, like a bird, or tie it on a leash for your girls? ⁶ Will partners bargain for it? Will they divide it up among the merchants? ⁷ Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears? ⁸ If you lay your hand on it, you will remember the fight, and you will never do it again! ⁹ See, his expectation is wrong, he is laid low even at the sight of it. ¹⁰ Is it not fierce when it is awakened? Who is he, then, who can stand before it?

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

Deuteronomy 32:14
butter from the herd and milk from the flock, along with the fat of lambs, rams and goats of Bashan, along with the best of the kernels of wheat; and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.

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.