Job 41:5 {40:24}
Good News Translation
Will you tie him like a pet bird, like something to amuse your servant women?

New Revised Standard Version
Will you play with it as with a bird, or will you put it on leash for your girls?

Contemporary English Version
Can it be tied by the leg like a pet bird for little girls?

New American Bible
Can you play with him, as with a bird? Can you tie him up for your little girls?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Shalt thou play with him as with a bird, or tie him up for thy handmaids?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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Judges 16:25-30 And rejoicing in their feasts, when they had now taken their good cheer, they commanded that Samson should be called, and should play before them. And being brought out of prison, he played before them; and they made him stand between two pillars. . . .

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Job 28:11 The depths also of rivers he hath searched, and hidden things he hath brought forth to light.

Context
God's Power Shown in Leviathan
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?6Shall friends cut him in pieces, shall merchants divide him?…
Cross References
Job 41:4
Will he make a covenant with thee, and wilt thou take him to be a servant for ever?

Job 41:6
Shall friends cut him in pieces, shall merchants divide him?

Job 41:4
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