Job 41:28

28 Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones are like chaff to it.

Job 41:28 in Other Translations

28 The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.

28 The arrow cannot make him flee; for him sling stones are turned to stubble.

28 Arrows cannot make it flee. Stones shot from a sling are like bits of grass.

28 Arrows don't even make him blink; bullets make no more impression than raindrops.

28 No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like stubble to him.

Job 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.

Job 41:28 In-Context

26 The sword that reaches it has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.

27 Iron it treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.

28 Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones are like chaff to it.

29 A club seems to it but a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.

30 Its undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

Cross References

• 1. Psalms 91:5