Job 41:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Isaiah 30:10

who say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things; prophesy illusions;

Proverbs 25:15

With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue can break bones.

Proverbs 18:23

The poor use entreaties, but the rich answer roughly.

Proverbs 15:1

A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

Psalm 55:21

with speech smoother than butter but with a heart set on war, with words that were softer than oil but in fact were drawn swords.

Job 41:2

Can you put a rope in its nose or pierce its jaw with a hook?

Job 41:4

Will it make a covenant with you to be taken as your servant forever?

Exodus 19:5

Now, therefore, if you obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession out of all the peoples. Indeed, the whole earth is mine,

Psalm 24:1

The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, the world, and those who live in it,

Haggai 2:8

The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the Lord of hosts.