Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
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Gill's Exposition
Wilt thou play with him as with a bird?.... In the hand or cage: leviathan plays in the sea, but there is no playing with him by land, Psa 104:26;
or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? or young…
Barnes' Notes
Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? - A bird that is tamed. The art of taming birds was doubtless early practiced, and they were kept for amusement. But the leviathan could not thus be tamed. Or…
Adam Clarke
Wilt thou play with him - Is he such a creature as thou canst tame; and of which thou canst make a pet, and give as a plaything to thy little girls? נערותיך naarotheycha; probably alluding to the…
Whether this leviathan be a whale or a crocodile is a great dispute among the learned, which I will not undertake to determine; some of the particulars agree more easily to the one, others to the…
Cambridge Bible
Wilt thou make a pet thing of him? The commentators quote Catullus, passer, deliciœ meœ puellœ.