Job 41:30

30 The underside of its body is like broken pieces of pottery. It leaves a trail in the mud like a threshing board.

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 It does not run away from arrows; stones from slings are like chaff to it.

29 Clubs feel like pieces of straw to it, and it laughs when they shake a spear at it.

30 The underside of its body is like broken pieces of pottery. It leaves a trail in the mud like a threshing board.

31 It makes the deep sea bubble like a boiling pot; it stirs up the sea like a pot of oil.

32 When it swims, it leaves a shining path in the water that makes the sea look as if it had white hair.