Job 41:26-34

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.

31 He roils deep ocean the way you'd boil water, he whips the sea like you'd whip an egg into batter.

32 With a luminous trail stretching out behind him, you might think Ocean had grown a gray beard!

33 There's nothing on this earth quite like him, not an ounce of fear in that creature!

34 He surveys all the high and mighty - king of the ocean, king of the deep!"

Job 41:26-34 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 41

A large description is here given of the leviathan, from the difficulty and danger of taking it, from whence it is inferred that none can stand before God, Job 41:1-10; from the several parts of him, his face, teeth, scales, eyes, mouth and neck, flesh and heart, Job 41:11-24; and from various wonderful terrible things said of him, and ascribed to him, Job 41:25-34.