Job 41:28

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

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.


FOOTNOTES:

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

Job 41:28 In-Context

26 Javelins bounce harmlessly off his hide, harpoons ricochet wildly.
27 Iron bars are so much straw to him, bronze weapons beneath notice.
28 Arrows don't even make him blink; bullets make no more impression than raindrops.
29 A battle ax is nothing but a splinter of kindling; he treats a brandished harpoon as a joke.
30 His belly is armor-plated, inexorable - unstoppable as a barge.
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