The Meaning of Job 41:4 Explained

Job 41:4

KJV: Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

YLT: Doth he make a covenant with thee? Dost thou take him for a servant age-during?

Darby: Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him as a bondman for ever?

ASV: Will he make a covenant with thee, That thou shouldest take him for a servant for ever?

Discover Job 41:4

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 41:4?

MEANING: What does Job 41:4 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 41:4 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 41:4?

What is the context of Job 41:4?

The Lord Challenges Job (Job 41:1-34)
God’s Power in the Leviathan (Job 41:1-34)
The Lord’s Challenge Continues (Job 41:1-34)
Yahweh Interrogates Job Again (Job 41:1-34)
God’s Power Shown in Creatures (Job 41:1-34)
The Lord Speaks (Job 41:1-34)
On Leviathan (Job 41:1-34)

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?

What does Job 41:4 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 41:1-34 - The Parable Of The Crocodile

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 suggests his greatness. He is not an animal with whom you can play, or to whom you can speak soft words, or whose skin can be reached withsharpened weapons. His scales, Job 41:12-17; his eyes, mouth, and nostrils, Job 41:18-24; his fearlessness of human attack, Job 41:25-29; his power to lash the sea into a fury, making it to boil, Job 41:30-34 -each of these features is described in graphic terms.

As before, it is clear that the object is to throw into strong contrast the puniness and littleness of man. We may not be so much given to speculations about the organic world in which we live. But we are able to appreciate the argument. Surely He who tells the number of the stars, and weighs the mountains in scales, will have His pathway through the deep, and His footsteps in mighty waters. Being all that He is, He cannot but baffle the eye of man, but the heart can fully trust Him. We know that He does all things well. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 41

¹ Of God's great power in the leviathan

What do the individual words in Job 41:4 mean?

Will he make a covenant with you will you take him as a servant forever

הֲיִכְרֹ֣ת בְּרִ֣ית עִמָּ֑ךְ תִּ֝קָּחֶ֗נּוּ לְעֶ֣בֶד ؟ עוֹלָֽם

הֲיִכְרֹ֣ת	Will he make
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular Root: כָּרַת Sense: to cut, cut off, cut down, cut off a body part, cut out, eliminate, kill, cut a covenant.
בְּרִ֣ית	a covenant
Parse: Noun, feminine singular Root: בְּרִית Sense: covenant, alliance, pledge.
עִמָּ֑ךְ	with you
Parse: Preposition, second person feminine singular Root: עִם Sense: with.
תִּ֝קָּחֶ֗נּוּ	will you take him
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, second person masculine singular, third person masculine singular Root: יָקַח Sense: to take, get, fetch, lay hold of, seize, receive, acquire, buy, bring, marry, take a wife, snatch, take away.
לְעֶ֣בֶד	as a servant
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, masculine singular construct Root: עֶבֶד Sense: slave, servant.
؟ עוֹלָֽם	forever
Parse: Noun, masculine singular Root: עֹולָם Sense: long duration, antiquity, futurity, for ever, ever, everlasting, evermore, perpetual, old, ancient, world.

What are the major concepts related to Job 41:4?

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Similar Scriptures for Job 41:4

		Exodus 21:6 [4]
		Deuteronomy 15:17 [3]
		Genesis 1:28 [2]
		1 Kings 20:31-34 [2]
		Psalms 8:5-6 [2]