Job 41:28

28 {An arrow} will not make it flee; sling stones are turned to stubble for it.

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 Reaching it [with the] sword does not avail, [nor] [with the] spear, [the] dart, or [the] javelin.
27 It regards iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood.
28 {An arrow} will not make it flee; sling stones are turned to stubble for it.
29 Clubs are regarded as stubble, and it laughs at [the] short sword's rattle.
30 "Its underparts [are] shards of a potsherd; it moves over mud [like] a threshing sledge.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Literally "A son of a bow"
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