Yuēbó 41:28

28 Jiàn bùnéng kǒng xià tā shǐ tā taóbì . dàn shí zaì tā kàn wèi suì jiē .

Yuēbó 41:28 Meaning and Commentary

Job 41:28

The arrow cannot make him flee
The skin of the crocodile is so hard, as Peter Martyr says, that it cannot be pierced with arrows, as before observed; therefore it is not afraid of them, nor will flee from them;

slingstones are turned with him into stubble;
are no more regarded by him than if stubble was cast at him; not only stones out of a sling, but out of an engine; and such is the hardness of the skin of the crocodile, that, as Isidore says ^F5, the strokes of the strongest stones are rebounded by it, yea, even it is said to withstand against musket shot ^F6.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 Origin. l. 12. c. 6.
F6 Mandelsloe in Harris's Voyages vol. 1. p. 759.

Yuēbó 41:28 In-Context

26 Rén ruò yòng dāo , yòng qiāng , yòng biāo qiāng , yòng jiān qiāng zhá tā , dōu shì wúyòng .

27 Tā Yǐtiĕ wèi gān cǎo , yǐ tóng wèi làn mù .

28 Jiàn bùnéng kǒng xià tā shǐ tā taóbì . dàn shí zaì tā kàn wèi suì jiē .

29 Gùn bàng suàn wèi hé jiē . tā chīxiào duǎn qiāng sōu de xiǎngshēng .

30 Tā dù fù xià rú jiān wǎ piān , tā rú dīng bà jīngguò yū ní .