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 ; yet there is an instance of the child of an Egyptian woman that was brought up with one, and used to play with it , though, when grown up, was killed by it; but no such instance can be given of the whale of any sort.
Aelian. l. 10. c. 21. Maxim. Tyr. Sermon.