Job 41:4

New English Translation

Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life?

Cross References

Genesis 1:28

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground.”

Job 41:3

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

Job 41:5

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

Exodus 21:6

then his master must bring him to the judges, and he will bring him to the door or the doorposts, and his master will pierce his ear with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

Deuteronomy 15:17

you shall take an awl and pierce a hole through his ear to the door. Then he will become your servant permanently (this applies to your female servant as well).

1 Samuel 11:1

Nahash the Ammonite marched against Jabesh Gilead. All the men of Jabesh Gilead said to Nahash, “Make a treaty with us and we will serve you.”