Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women?

New American Standard Bible

“Will you play with him as with a bird,
Or will you bind him for your maidens?

King James Version

Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

Holman Bible

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

International Standard Version

"Will you play with him like a pet bird? Will you put a leash on him for your little girls?

A Conservative Version

Will thou play with him as with a bird? Or will thou bind him for thy maidens?

American Standard Version

Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

Amplified


“Will you play with him as with a bird?
Or will you bind him [and put him on a leash] for your maidens?

Darby Translation

Wilt thou play with him as with a bird, and wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

Julia Smith Translation

Wilt thou play with him as a bird? and wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

King James 2000

Will you play with him as with a bird? or will you leash him for your maidens?

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

Modern King James verseion

Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your maidens?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Wilt thou take thy pastime with him as with a bird? Or give him unto thy maidens,

NET Bible

Can you play with it, like a bird, or tie it on a leash for your girls?

New Heart English Bible

Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?

The Emphasized Bible

Wilt thou sport with him, as with a little bird? Or wilt thou bind him, for thy maidens?

Webster

Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

World English Bible

Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?

Youngs Literal Translation

Dost thou play with him as a bird? And dost thou bind him for thy damsels?

Topics

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Wilt thou play
שׂחק 
Sachaq 
Usage: 36

with him as with a bird
צפּר צפּור 
Tsippowr 
Usage: 40

or wilt thou bind
קשׁר 
Qashar 
Usage: 44

References

Fausets

Context Readings

The Lord Continues: Can You Conquer Leviathan, Job?

4 Will he make an agreement with you, so that you may take him as a servant for ever? 5 Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women? 6 Will the fishermen make profit out of him? will they have him cut up for the traders?



Cross References

Judges 16:25-30

Now when their hearts were full of joy, they said, Send for Samson to make sport for us. And they sent for Samson out of the prison-house, and he made sport before them; and they put him between the pillars.

Job 28:11

He keeps back the streams from flowing, and makes the secret things come out into the light.

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