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Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?
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An Untamable 'Pet'
God asks Job if he would domesticate Leviathan like a pet bird for his daughters. Commentators explain this is a rhetorical question designed to sound absurd. The image of trying to tame such a fearsome, and as one scholar notes, "unsightly" creature highlights the vast gap between human ability and the power of God's creation.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Will you play with him as with a bird?— A bird that is tamed. The art of taming birds was doubtless early practiced, and they were …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Will you play with him as [with] a bird ? &c.] In the hand or cage: leviathan plays in the sea, but there is no play…
The description of the Leviathan is further to convince Job of his own weakness and of God's almighty power. Whether this Leviathan is a whale or a…
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13th Century
Catholic
After the Lord described the power of Leviathan, showing that humanity cannot conquer him but only God can, He now speaks of Leviathan's power to a…
