Job 41:28

28 Arrows can't make him flee; slingstones he turns to straw.

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 that touches him won't prevail; neither will the dart, spear, nor javelin.

27 He treats iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood.

28 Arrows can't make him flee; slingstones he turns to straw.

29 He treats a club like straw; he laughs at the lance's rattle.

30 His abdomen is like jagged pottery shards; its sharp edges leave a trail in the mud.