Job 41:3

Will it make numerous supplications to you, ¹  will it speak to you with tender words? ² 

biblegateway Job 41:3

Will he keep begging you for mercy? Will he speak to you with gentle words?

biblegateway Job 41:3

"Will he make many supplications to you, Or will he speak to you soft words?

biblegateway Job 41:3

Will it beg you for mercy or implore you for pity?

biblegateway Job 41:3

Will he beg you over and over for mercy, or flatter you with flowery speech?

SABDAweb Job 41:3

Will he make prayers to you, or say soft words to you?

bibleoremus Job 41:3

Will it make many supplications to you? Will it speak soft words to you?

biblegateway Job 41:3

Will he make many supplications to you? Will he speak softly to you?

biblegateway Job 41:3

Will it make numerous supplications to you, ¹  will it speak to you with tender words? ² 

¹ tn The line asks if the animal, when caught and tied and under control, would keep on begging for mercy. Absolutely not. It is not in the nature of the beast. The construction uses יַרְבֶּה (yarbeh, “[will] he multiply” [= “make numerous”]), with the object, “supplications” i.e., prayers for mercy.

² tn The rhetorical question again affirms the opposite. The poem is portraying the creature as powerful and insensitive.