Job 41:3

3 Will he beg you at length or speak gentle words to you?

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 Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook, restrain his tongue with a rope?

2 Can you put a cord through his nose, pierce his jaw with a barb?

3 Will he beg you at length or speak gentle words to you?

4 Will he make a pact with you so that you will take him as a permanent slave?

5 Can you play with him like a bird, put a leash on him for your girls?