Wilt thou play with him as [with] a bird?
&c.] In the hand or cage: leviathan plays in the sea, but
there is no playing with him by land, ( Psalms
104:26 ) ;
or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
or young girls, as Mr. Broughton renders it; tie him in a string,
as birds are for children to play with? Now, though crocodiles
are very pernicious to children, and often make a prey of them
when they approach too near the banks of the Nile, or whenever
they have an opportunity of seizing them F11; yet
there is an instance of the child of an Egyptian woman that was
brought up with one, and used to play with it F12,
though, when grown up, was killed by it; but no such instance can
be given of the whale of any sort.