Job 41:27

27 Iron it treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.

Job 41:27 in Other Translations

27 He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

27 He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.

27 Iron is nothing but straw to that creature, and bronze is like rotten wood.

27 Iron bars are so much straw to him, bronze weapons beneath notice.

27 He regards iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.

Job 41:27 Meaning and Commentary

Job 41:27

He esteemeth iron as straw
You may as well cast a straw at him as a bar of iron; it will make no impression on his steeled back, which is as a coat of mail to him; so Eustathius affirms ^F4 that the sharpest iron is rebounded and blunted by him;

[and] brass as rotten wood;
or steel, any instrument made of it, though ever so strong or piercing.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 Apud ibid. (Bochard. Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 5. c. 17. col. 785.)

Job 41:27 In-Context

25 When it rises up, the mighty are terrified; they retreat before its thrashing.

26 The sword that reaches it has no effect, nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.

27 Iron it treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.

28 Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones are like chaff to it.

29 A club seems to it but a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.

Cross References

• 1. ver 29