Job 41:28

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

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.

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FOOTNOTES:

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

Job 41:28 In-Context

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.

30 Under him are sharp edges of broken pots: as if he was pulling a grain-crushing instrument over the wet earth.