Job 41:30

30 "Its underparts [are] shards of a potsherd; it moves over 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 {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.

32 Behind it, {it leaves a glistening wake}; one would think [that] the deep [has] gray hair.