Job 41:27

27 It treats iron as if it were straw and bronze metal as if it were rotten wood.

Job 41:27 Meaning and Commentary

Job 41:27

He esteemeth iron as straw
You may as well cast a straw at him as a bar of iron; it will make no impression on his steeled back, which is as a coat of mail to him; so Eustathius affirms ^F4 that the sharpest iron is rebounded and blunted by him;

[and] brass as rotten wood;
or steel, any instrument made of it, though ever so strong or piercing.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 Apud ibid. (Bochard. Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 5. c. 17. col. 785.)

Job 41:27 In-Context

25 The powerful fear its terrible looks and draw back in fear as it moves.

26 The sword that hits it does not hurt it, nor the arrows, darts, and spears.

27 It treats iron as if it were straw and bronze metal as if it were rotten wood.

28 It does not run away from arrows; stones from slings are like chaff to it.

29 Clubs feel like pieces of straw to it, and it laughs when they shake a spear at it.