Job 41:29

29 Clubs count as hay, and he laughs at a quivering javelin.

Job 41:29 Meaning and Commentary

Job 41:29

Darts are counted as stubble
Darts being mentioned before, perhaps something else is meant here, and, according to Ben Gersom, the word signifies an engine out of which stones are cast to batter down walls; but these are of no avail against the leviathan;

he laugheth at the shaking of a spear;
at him, knowing it cannot hurt him; the crocodile, as Thevenot says ^F7, is proof against the halberd. The Septuagint version is, "the shaking of the pyrophorus", or torch bearer; one that carried a torch before the army, who, when shook, it was a token to begin the battle; which the leviathan being fearless of laughs at it; (See Gill on Obadiah 1:18).

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 Travels, part 1. b. 2. c. 72. p. 245.

Job 41:29 In-Context

27 He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

28 An arrow can't make him flee; for him, slingstones are so much chaff.

29 Clubs count as hay, and he laughs at a quivering javelin.

30 His belly is as sharp as fragments of pottery, so he moves across the mud like a threshing-sledge.

31 "He makes the depths seethe like a pot, he makes the sea [boil] like a perfume kettle.