Ayub 41:5

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

(40-24) Dapatkah engkau bermain-main dengan dia seperti dengan burung, dan mengikat dia untuk anak-anakmu perempuan?

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
(40-24) Dapatkah engkau bermain-main dengan dia seperti dengan burung, dan mengikat dia untuk anak-anakmu perempuan?

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Siapa gerangan berani membuka pintu mukanya? bahwa hebat adalah keliling giginya.

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

play: Judges 16:25-30

bind: Job 28:11

Reciprocal: Job 39:10 - General Psalms 104:26 - to play

Cross-References

Deuteronomy 32:14
With butter of kine, and mylke of the sheepe, with fat of the lambes, and fat of rammes and hee goates, with the fat of the most plenteous wheate, and that thou myghtest drynke the most 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.