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The LORD’s Power Shown in Leviathan

Job 41:4

In 11 translations

BSB
Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?
KJV
Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
WEB
Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever?
ASV
Will he make a covenant with thee, That thou shouldest take him for a servant for ever?
LSV
Does he make a covenant with you? Do you take him for a perpetual servant?
YLT
Doth he make a covenant with thee? Dost thou take him for a servant age-during?
DBY
Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him as a bondman for ever?
DRC40:23
Will he make a covenant with thee, and wilt thou take him to be a servant for ever?
GNV40:23
Will hee make a couenant with thee? and wilt thou take him as a seruant for euer?
JPS40:28
Will he make a covenant with thee, that thou shouldest take him for a servant for ever?
LXXE40:28
And will he make a covenant with thee? and wilt thou take him for a perpetual servant?

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Original-language editions

WLC40:28
הֲיִכְרֹ֣ת בְּרִ֣ית עִמָּ֑ךְ תִּ֝קָּחֶ֗נּוּ לְעֶ֣בֶד עוֹלָֽם׃KJV:Job.41.4
LXX-Br40:28
Θήσεται δὲ μετὰ σοῦ διαθήκην; λήψῃ δὲ αὐτὸν δοῦλον αἰώνιον;

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Exodus 21:6then his master is to bring him before the judges. And he shall take him to the door or doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he shall serve his master for life.
  • Deuteronomy 15:17then take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door, and he will become your servant for life. And treat your maidservant the same way.
  • 1 Kings 20:31–34Then the servants of Ben-hadad said to him, “Look now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful. Let us go out to the king of Israel with sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads.…
  • Psalms 8:5–6You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor. You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:
  • Genesis 1:28God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”

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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 40:28 in some Bibles
  • 41:4 in most Bibles

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