Job 41:28-34

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.

31 It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.

32 It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had white hair.

33 Nothing on earth is its equal— a creature without fear.

34 It looks down on all that are haughty; it is king over all that are proud.”

Job 41:28-34 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.

Cross References

• 1. Psalms 91:5
• 2. ver 27
• 3. S Job 5:22
• 4. Isaiah 28:27; Isaiah 41:15; Amos 1:3
• 5. 1 Samuel 2:14
• 6. Ezekiel 32:2
• 7. S Job 40:19
• 8. Psalms 18:27; Psalms 101:5; Psalms 131:1; Proverbs 6:17; Proverbs 21:4; Proverbs 30:13
• 9. Job 28:8