41:5 Can you play 1 with it, like a bird,
or tie it on a leash 2 for your girls?
41:29 A club is counted 3 as a piece of straw;
it laughs at the rattling of the lance.
1 tn The Hebrew verb is שָׂחַק (sakhaq, “to sport; to trifle; to play,” Ps 104:26).
2 tn The idea may include putting Leviathan on a leash. D. W. Thomas suggested on the basis of an Arabic cognate that it could be rendered “tie him with a string like a young sparrow” (VT 14 [1964]: 114ff.).
3 tn The verb is plural, but since there is no expressed subject it is translated as a passive here.