Verse 4
Job 41:4 Will he make a covenant with thee? wilt thou take him for a servant for ever?
Ver. 4. Will he make a covenant with thee? ] And compound, where he cannot conquer.
Wilt thou take him for a servant for ever? ] To be at thy disposal, and to do thy drudgery? q.d. He scorns the motion. Before the fall this and all other creatures were at man’s service, Genesis 1:28 ; Genesis 2:19-20 ; but now, alas! it is otherwise. Howbeit to those that are in Christ this part of God’s lost image is in part restored, Hebrews 2:6 , with Psalms 8:4-5 , and shall be perfectly, Revelation 2:26 . What singular service the whale did Jonas in shipping him to land who knows not?
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