Job 41:30

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

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 don't even make him blink; bullets make no more impression than raindrops.

29 A battle ax is nothing but a splinter of kindling; he treats a brandished harpoon as a joke.

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

31 He roils deep ocean the way you'd boil water, he whips the sea like you'd whip an egg into batter.

32 With a luminous trail stretching out behind him, you might think Ocean had grown a gray beard!