Bible verse
Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?
Job 41:5 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 41.
1 “Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie down his tongue with a rope?
2 Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
3 Will he beg you for mercy or speak to you softly?
4 Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?
5 Can you pet him like a bird or put him on a leash for your maidens?
6 Will traders barter for him or divide him among the merchants?
7 Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
8 If you lay a hand on him, you will remember the battle and never repeat it!
9 Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?
KJV
Wilt thou play with him as [with] a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
ASV
Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
ERV
Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
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