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Job 41:3 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 3. 3Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?
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Role in This Section
Job 41:3 advances the thought unit with the words “Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?.” The LORD presses the unit's question through “Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?”, a line that belongs to Leviathan Cannot Be Hooked, Bargained with, or Domesticated.
Read It With
- Job 41:1–41:10
Read Job 41:3 with 41:1–41:10. Read alone, “Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: The LORD asks whether Job can capture, bind, bargain with, play with, trade, or fight Leviathan and concludes that even the sight destroys human confidence.
Why It Needs Context
Job 41:3 depends on 41:1–41:10; isolating “Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from The LORD and “Leviathan Cannot Be Hooked, Bargained with, or Domesticated.”
Read Job 41:1–10 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 41:1–41:10 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained divine-speech movement: “Leviathan Cannot Be Hooked, Bargained with, or Domesticated.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 1. 1 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?
Verse 2. 2 Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
Verse 3. 3 Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?
Verse 4. 4 Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
Verse 5. 5 Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
Verse 6. 6 Shall the companions make a banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants?
Verse 7. 7 Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
Verse 8. 8 Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
Verse 9. 9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: shall not one be cast down even at the sight of him?
Verse 10. 10 None is so fierce that dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?
Continue in Context
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Read Job 41:1–41:10 — Leviathan Cannot Be Hooked, Bargained with, or DomesticatedSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 41:1–41:10, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 41:1–41:10
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