Job 41:29

29 To him a club is a piece of straw, and he laughs when men throw spears.

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 For him iron is as flimsy as straw, and bronze as soft as rotten wood.

28 There is no arrow that can make him run; rocks thrown at him are like bits of straw.

29 To him a club is a piece of straw, and he laughs when men throw spears.

30 The scales on his belly are like jagged pieces of pottery; they tear up the muddy ground like a threshing sledge.

31 He churns up the sea like boiling water and makes it bubble like a pot of oil.