Job 41:30

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

Job 41:30 Meaning and Commentary

Job 41:30

Sharp stones [are] under him
And yet give him no pain nor uneasiness;

he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire;
and makes his bed of them and lies upon them; as sharp stones, as before, shells of fishes, broken pieces of darts, arrows, and javelins thrown at him, which fall around him: this does not so well agree with the crocodile, the skin of whose belly is soft and thin; wherefore dolphins plunge under it and cut it with a thorn, as Pliny ^F8 relates, or with spiny fins ^F9; but with the whale, which lies among hard rocks and sharp stones, and large cutting pieces of ice, as in the northern seas.

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 25.
F9 Sandys's Travels, l. 2. p. 78.

Job 41:30 In-Context

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.

31 The deep is boiling like a pot of spices, and the sea like a perfume-vessel.

32 After him his way is shining, so that the deep seems white.