Job 41:29

29 Clubs are regarded as stubble, and it laughs at [the] short sword's rattle.

Job 41:29 Meaning and Commentary

Job 41:29

Darts are counted as stubble
Darts being mentioned before, perhaps something else is meant here, and, according to Ben Gersom, the word signifies an engine out of which stones are cast to batter down walls; but these are of no avail against the leviathan;

he laugheth at the shaking of a spear;
at him, knowing it cannot hurt him; the crocodile, as Thevenot says F7, is proof against the halberd. The Septuagint version is, "the shaking of the pyrophorus", or torch bearer; one that carried a torch before the army, who, when shook, it was a token to begin the battle; which the leviathan being fearless of laughs at it; (See Gill on Obadiah 1:18).


FOOTNOTES:

F7 Travels, part 1. b. 2. c. 72. p. 245.

Job 41:29 In-Context

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.
31 It makes [the] deep boil like a cooking pot; it makes [the] sea like a pot of ointment.
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