Job 41:4

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

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?

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

Amplified Bible
"Will he make a covenant or an arrangement with you? Will you 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?

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

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

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

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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

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

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

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?

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,

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

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

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

Contextual Overview

¹ "Or can you pull in the sea beast, Leviathan, with a fly rod and stuff him in your creel? Can you lasso him with a rope, or snag him with an anchor? Will he beg you over and over for mercy, or flatter you with flowery speech? Will he apply for a job with you to run errands and serve you the rest of your life? Will you play with him as if he were a pet goldfish? Will you make him the mascot of the neighborhood children? Will you put him on display in the market and have shoppers haggle over the price? Could you shoot him full of arrows like a pin cushion, or drive harpoons into his huge head? If you so much as lay a hand on him, you won't live to tell the story. What hope would you have with such a creature? Why, one look at him would do you in! If you can't hold your own against his glowering visage, how, then, do you expect to stand up to me? Who could confront me and get by with it? I'm in charge of all this—I run this universe!

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
Solomon woke up—what a dream! He returned to Jerusalem, took his place before the Chest of the Covenant of God, and worshiped by sacrificing Whole-Burnt-Offerings and Peace-Offerings. Then he laid out a banquet for everyone in his service.

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?