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?