Job 41:28

28 A man archer shall not drive him away; [the] stones of a sling be turned into stubble to him.

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 When sword taketh him, it may not stand, neither spear, neither habergeon. (And when a sword trieth to take him, it shall not succeed, nor a spear, nor a dagger.)
27 For he shall areckon iron as chaff, and brass as rotten wood (and bronze like rotten wood).
28 A man archer shall not drive him away; [the] stones of a sling be turned into stubble to him.
29 He shall areckon an hammer as stubble; and he shall scorn a flourishing spear (and he shall have scorn for the spear that is flourished, or shaken, at him).
30 The beams of the sun shall be under him; and he shall strew to himself gold as clay. (Sharp stones shall be under him; and he shall spread abroad pointed shards upon the clay.)
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