Job 41:3

3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? Will he speak soft words unto thee?

Job 41:3 Meaning and Commentary

Job 41:3

Will he make many supplications unto thee?
&c.] To cease pursuing him, or to let him go when taken, or to use him well and not take away his life; no, he is too spirited and stouthearted to ask any favour, it is below him;

will he speak soft [words] unto thee?
smooth and flattering ones, for the above purposes? he will not: this is a figurative way of speaking.

Job 41:3 In-Context

1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook or with the cord which thou lettest down on his tongue?

2 Canst thou put a hook into his nose or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? Will he speak soft words unto thee?

4 Will he make a covenant with thee that thou shall take him for a slave for ever?

5 Wilt thou play with him as with a bird, or wilt thou tie him up for thy maidens?