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Job 41:4

Will he make a covenant with thee, an agreement to submit himself? Wilt thou take him for a servant forever, making him a slave?

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 41 _ 1. Leviathan, the untamable beast of power (Job 41:1)_ 2. Its description (Job 41:12) 3. His remarkable strength (Job 41:25)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB 40:15 TO JOB 41:34. BEHEMOTH AND LEVIATHAN. Most scholars regard this passage as a later addition to the poem. The point of Job 40:8 is God's reply to Job's criticism of His righteousness; the des...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB 41. LEVIATHAN. The author regards the crocodile as impossible of capture. In Job 41:1 b perhaps the meaning is that when caught the crocodile cannot be led about by a rope round his tongue and low...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Will he consent to be one of thy domesticated animals, and serve thee?...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Job 40:6 to Job 42:6. The Lord's Second Answer to Job out of the Storm Shall Man charge God with unrighteousness in His Rule of the World? All that the first speech of the Lord touched upon was the...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The impossibility of capturing the animal....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT 41:1-34 41 Canst thou draw out leviathan with a fishhook? Or press down his tongue with a cord? 2 Canst thou put a rope Into his nose? Or pierce his jaw through with a hook? 3 Will he make ma...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _WILL HE MAKE A COVENANT WITH THEE? WILT THOU TAKE HIM FOR A SERVANT FOR EVER?_ Can he be tamed for domestic use? (so Job 39:10.)...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SECOND SPEECH OF THE ALMIGHTY (CONCLUDED) The second great creature, the Crocodile (with which the 'leviathan' is generally identified) is now described. If Job cannot control the crocodile, dare...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    WILT THOU TAKE] RV 'That thou shouldest take.' 6A. RV 'Shall the bands _of fishermen_ make traffic of him?' MERCHANTS] lit. 'Canaanites' or 'lowlanders'on the trading route from Syria to Egypt, who we...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 41 GOD FINISHES HIS SPEECH...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    People keep many animals as pets. But nobody can train a crocodile to be a tame animal. It is out of control. MEN CANNOT HUNT FOR A CROCODILE V6 Merchants will not bargain for the meat of the crocod...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    A SERVANT FOR EVER. — The crocodile being probably quite untameable....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Job 40:28]_ הֲ יִכְרֹ֣ת בְּרִ֣ית עִמָּ֑ךְ תִּ֝קָּחֶ֗נּוּ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    XXVIII. THE RECONCILIATION Job 38:1 - Job 42:6 THE main argument of the address ascribed to the Almighty is contained in Chapter s 38 and 39 and in the opening verses of chapter 42. Job makes submis...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE PARABLE OF THE CROCODILE Job 41:1 The last paragraph described the hippopotamus; the whole of this chapter is devoted to the crocodile. In a series of striking questions the voice of the Almighty...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Leviathan is almost certainly the crocodile, and there is the playfulness of a great tenderness in the suggestions Jehovah makes to Job about these fierce creations. Can Job catch him with a rope or a...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take (n) him for a servant for ever? (n) To do your business, and be at your command?...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Garment, or the skin. (Menochius) --- Who shall look steadfastly, or dare to take off its skin? --- Mouth. Protestants, "Who can come to him with his double bridle?" (Haydock) though it be of the grea...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (1) В¶ Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? (2) Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? (3) Will he make m...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 38 THROUGH 42. Jehovah then speaks, and addressing Job, carries on the subject. He makes Job sensible of his nothingness. Job confesses himself to be vile, an...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole 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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? Ver. 4. _Will he make a covenant with thee?_] And compound, where he cannot conquer. _ Wilt thou take him for a servant f...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Will he make supplications unto thee?_ Doth he dread thy anger or power? Or will he earnestly beg thy favour? It is a metaphor from men in distress, who use these means to them to whose power they ar...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    LEVIATHAN (vv.1-34) Leviathan was a water creature, and appears to be the crocodile, the most fearsome of all aquatic beasts, unless it was another similar animal, now extinct. Job could use a hook...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    A COVENANT, to wit, to do thee faithful service, as the next words explain it. Canst thou bring him into bondage, and force him to serve thee?...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 41:4 make H3772 (H8799) covenant H1285 take H3947 (H8799) servant H5650 forever H5769 Will he -...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: God's challenge to Job concluded. CHARACTERS: God, Job. CONCLUSION: Man is utterly unable to contend against the Almighty. If the inferior creatures keep man in awe, how wonderful must the...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 41:1. _Canst thou draw out leviathan?_ This word is rendered by the LXX, “dragon.” It occurs in Isaiah 27:1, and is rendered _whale, dragon,_ and _serpent._ Men are now satisfied that it is not th...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Canst thou draw out Leviathan?_ BEHEMOTH AND LEVIATHAN The description of the “behemoth” in the preceding chapter and the “leviathan” here suggests a few moral reflections. I. The prodigality of c...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 41:1 The Lord describes the power of LEVIATHAN in terms of man’s inability to subdue him. He compares such power to his own (vv. Job 41:9)....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    NOTES Job 41:1. “_Canst thou draw out Leviathan with a hook_.” The term “Leviathan” (לִוְיָתָן) rendered here by the SEPTUAGINT, SYRIAC, and ARABIC, “the dragon.” The VULGATE and TARGUM leave it untra...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOB 41:1 The crowning description of a natural marvel—the "leviathan," or crocodile—is now given, and with an elaboration to which there is no parallel in the rest of Scripture. It forms,...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And then in the next chapter God speaks of the leviathan. Now just what the leviathan is, they're not quite sure. Some think that it is perhaps a crocodile, some think that it's perhaps even a dragon,...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 20:31; Deuteronomy 15:17; Exodus 21:6; Genesis 1:28; Psalms 8

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