Job 41:4 {40:23}
Good News Translation
Will he make an agreement with you and promise to serve you forever?

New Revised Standard Version
Will it make a covenant with you to be taken as your servant forever?

Contemporary English Version
Will it surrender as a slave for life?

New American Bible
Will he make a covenant with you that you may have him as a slave forever?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Will he make a covenant with thee, and wilt thou take him to be a servant for ever?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Will he make a covenant with thee, and wilt thou take him to be a servant for ever?

Will he

1 Kings 20:31-34 And his servants said to him: Behold, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful; so let us put sackcloths on our loins, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: perhaps he will save our lives. . . .

wilt thou

Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.

Psalm 8:5,6 Thou hast made him a little less than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honour: . . .

a servant

Exodus 21:6 His master shall bring him to the gods, and he shall be set to the door and the posts, and he shall bore his ear through with an awl: and he shall be his servant for ever.

Deuteronomy 15:17 Thou shalt take an awl, and bore through his ear in the door of thy house, and he shall serve thee for ever: thou shalt do in like manner to thy womanservant also.

Context
God's Power Shown in Leviathan
3Will he make many supplications to thee, or speak soft words to thee? 4Will he make a covenant with thee, and wilt thou take him to be a servant for ever?5Shalt thou play with him as with a bird, or tie him up for thy handmaids?…
Cross References
1 Samuel 11:1
And it came to pass about a month after this, that Naas, the Ammonite, came up, and began to fight against Jabes Galaad. And all the men of Jabes said to Naas: Make a covenant with us, and we will serve thee.

Job 41:3
Will he make many supplications to thee, or speak soft words to thee?

Job 41:5
Shalt thou play with him as with a bird, or tie him up for thy handmaids?

Job 41:3
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