Giobbe 41:28

28 (H41-20) La figlia dell’arco non lo mette in fuga; le pietre della fionda si mutano per lui in stoppia.

Giobbe 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 Origin. l. 12. c. 6.
F6 Mandelsloe in Harris's Voyages vol. 1. p. 759.

Giobbe 41:28 In-Context

26 (H41-18) Invano lo si attacca con la spada; a nulla valgon lancia, giavellotto, corazza.

27 (H41-19) Il ferro è per lui come paglia; il rame, come legno tarlato.

28 (H41-20) La figlia dell’arco non lo mette in fuga; le pietre della fionda si mutano per lui in stoppia.

29 (H41-21) Stoppia gli par la mazza e si ride del fremer della lancia.

30 (H41-22) Il suo ventre è armato di punte acute, e lascia come tracce d’erpice sul fango.