Job 41:30

30 His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading the mud like a threshing sledge.^[a]

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 No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like stubble to him.

29 A club is regarded as stubble, and he laughs at the whirring of a javelin.

30 His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading the mud like a threshing sledge.

31 He makes the depths seethe like a caldron; he makes the sea like an ointment jar.

32 He leaves a shining wake behind him; one would think the deep had white hair!

Footnotes

• [a]. Isa 41:15; Am 1:3