Ayub 41:4

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

(40-23) Mungkinkah ia mengikat perjanjian dengan engkau, sehingga engkau mengambil dia menjadi hamba untuk selama-lamanya?

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
(40-23) Mungkinkah ia mengikat perjanjian dengan engkau, sehingga engkau mengambil dia menjadi hamba untuk selama-lamanya?

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Siapa gerangan berani memandang pakaiannya dekat-dekat? siapakah berani menghampiri giginya yang dua berjajar?

Contextual Overview

¹ Canst thou drawe out Leuiathan with an hooke, or binde his tongue with a corde? ² Canst thou put a hooke in the nose of him, or bore his iawe through with a naule? ³ Wyl he make many faire wordes with thee [thinkest thou] or flatter thee? ⁴ Wyll he make a couenaunt with thee? or wilt thou take him for a seruaunt for euer? ⁵ Wylt thou take thy pastime with him as with a birde, wilt thou binde him for thy maydens? ⁶ That thy companions may make a refection of him: or shall he be parted among the marchauntes? ⁷ Canst thou fil the basket with his skin? or the fishe panier with his head? ⁸ Laye thyne hande vpon him, remember the battaile, and do no more so. ⁹ Beholde his hope is in vaine: for shall not one perishe euen at the sight of him? ¹⁰ No man is so fierce that dare stirre him vp: Who is able to stande 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
When Solomon awoke, beholde it was a dreame: And he came to Hierusalem and stoode before the arke of the couenaunt of the Lorde, & offred burnt offringes and peace offringes, and made a feast to all his seruauntes.

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?