Job 41:28

28 No lo hace huir la flecha; en hojarasca se convierten para él las piedras de la honda.

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 La espada que lo alcance no puede prevalecer, ni la lanza, el dardo, o la jabalina.
27 Estima el hierro como paja, el bronce como madera carcomida.
28 No lo hace huir la flecha; en hojarasca se convierten para él las piedras de la honda.
29 Como hojarasca son estimadas las mazas; se ríe del blandir de la jabalina.
30 Por debajo tiene como tiestos puntiagudos; se extiende como trillo sobre el lodo.
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