Job 41:28

28 There is no arrow that can make him run; rocks thrown at him are like bits of 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.


FOOTNOTES:

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

Job 41:28 In-Context

26 There is no sword that can wound him; no spear or arrow or lance that can harm him.
27 For him iron is as flimsy as straw, and bronze as soft as rotten wood.
28 There is no arrow that can make him run; rocks thrown at him are like bits of straw.
29 To him a club is a piece of straw, and he laughs when men throw spears.
30 The scales on his belly are like jagged pieces of pottery; they tear up the muddy ground like a threshing sledge.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.