Job 41:28

28 (41-19) The archer shall not put him to flight, the stones of the sling are to him like stubble.

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 (41-17) When a sword shall lay at him, it shall not be able to hold, nor a spear, nor a breastplate.
27 (41-18) For he shall esteem iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
28 (41-19) The archer shall not put him to flight, the stones of the sling are to him like stubble.
29 (41-20) As stubble will he esteem the hammer, and he will laugh him to scorn who shaketh the spear.
30 (41-21) The beams of the sun shall be under him, and he shall strew gold under him like mire.
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