Job 41:5
Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?
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, Ps 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 {k}; yet there is an instance of the child of an Egyptian woman that was brought up with one, and used to play with it {l}, though, when grown up, was killed by it; but no such instance can be given of the whale of any sort.
{k} Aelian. l. 10. c. 21.
{l} Maxim. Tyr. Sermon. 38.