Job 41:27

27 Iron is to him as dry grass, and brass as soft wood.

Job 41:27 Meaning and Commentary

Job 41:27

He esteemeth iron as straw
You may as well cast a straw at him as a bar of iron; it will make no impression on his steeled back, which is as a coat of mail to him; so Eustathius affirms ^F4 that the sharpest iron is rebounded and blunted by him;

[and] brass as rotten wood;
or steel, any instrument made of it, though ever so strong or piercing.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 Apud ibid. (Bochard. Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 5. c. 17. col. 785.)

Job 41:27 In-Context

25 When he gets ready for the fight, the strong are overcome with fear.

26 The sword may come near him but is not able to go through him; the spear, or the arrow, or the sharp-pointed iron.

27 Iron is to him as dry grass, and brass as soft wood.

28 The arrow is not able to put him to flight: stones are no more to him than dry stems.

29 A thick stick is no better than a leaf of grass, and he makes sport of the onrush of the spear.