Job 41:29

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

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 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.

30 The underside of its body is like broken pieces of pottery. It leaves a trail in the mud like a threshing board.

31 It makes the deep sea bubble like a boiling pot; it stirs up the sea like a pot of oil.