Job 41:3

3 Will it make numerous pleas for mercy to you? Or will it 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 fishhook? Or {can you tie down its mouth with a cord}?

2 Can you put a rope in its nose? Or can you pierce its jawbone with a hook?

3 Will it make numerous pleas for mercy to you? Or will it speak gentle words to you?

4 Will it make a covenant with you? Will you take it as a slave forever?

5 Will you play with it as [with] birds and put it on a leash for your girls?