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Louis Segond
Job 41:5
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- InternationalParallel Translations
Qui a ouvert les portes de sa gueule? La terreur est autour de ses dents.
(40:24) Joueras-tu avec lui comme avec un oiseau, et l'attacheras-tu pour tes jeunes filles?
Qui est-ce qui ouvrira les portes de sa gueule? La terreur se tient autour de ses dents.
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
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.
