Job 41:27

27 It treats iron as if it were straw. It crushes bronze as if it were rotten wood.

Job 41:27 Meaning and Commentary

Job 41:27

He esteemeth iron as straw
You may as well cast a straw at him as a bar of iron; it will make no impression on his steeled back, which is as a coat of mail to him; so Eustathius affirms ^F4 that the sharpest iron is rebounded and blunted by him;

[and] brass as rotten wood;
or steel, any instrument made of it, though ever so strong or piercing.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 Apud ibid. (Bochard. Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 5. c. 17. col. 785.)

Job 41:27 In-Context

25 When the leviathan rises up, even mighty people are terrified. They run away when it moves around wildly.

26 A sword that strikes it has no effect. Neither does a spear or dart or javelin.

27 It treats iron as if it were straw. It crushes bronze as if it were rotten wood.

28 Arrows do not make it run away. Stones that are thrown from slings are like straw hitting it.

29 A club seems like a piece of straw to it. It laughs when it hears a javelin rattling.