Job 41:30

30 Its undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

Job 41:30 in Other Translations

30 Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

30 His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.

30 Its belly is covered with scales as sharp as glass. It plows up the ground as it drags through the mud.

30 His belly is armor-plated, inexorable - unstoppable as a barge.

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

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 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.

30 Its undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

31 It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.

32 It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had white hair.

Cross References

• 1. Isaiah 28:27; Isaiah 41:15; Amos 1:3