John Gill's Exposition on Job 41:5

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Wilt thou play with him as [with] a bird? etc.] In the hand or cage: leviathan plays in the sea, but there is no playing with him by land, (<19A426>Psalm 104:26); or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? or young girls, as Mr. Broughton renders it; tie him in a string, as birds are for children to play with? Now, though crocodiles are very pernicious to children, and often make a prey of them when they approach too near the banks of the Nile, or whenever they have an opportunity of seizing them f1521; yet there is an instance of the child of an Egyptian woman that was brought up with one, and used to play with it f1522, though, when grown up, was killed by it; but no such instance can be given of the whale of any sort.

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