Job 41:5

Can you play ¹  with it, like a bird, or tie it on a leash ²  for your girls?

biblegateway Job 41:5

Can you make a pet of him like a bird or put him on a leash for your girls?

biblegateway Job 41:5

"Will you play with him as with a bird, Or will you bind him for your maidens?

biblegateway Job 41:5

Can you make it a pet like a bird, or give it to your little girls to play with?

biblegateway Job 41:5

Will you play with him as if he were a pet goldfish? Will you make him the mascot of the neighborhood children?

SABDAweb Job 41:5

Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women?

bibleoremus Job 41:5

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

biblegateway Job 41:5

Will you play with him as with a bird, Or will you leash him for your maidens?

biblegateway Job 41:5

Can you play ¹  with it, like a bird, or tie it on a leash ²  for your girls?

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.).