Job 41:28

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

Job 41:28 Meaning and Commentary

Job 41:28

The arrow cannot make him flee
The skin of the crocodile is so hard, as Peter Martyr says, that it cannot be pierced with arrows, as before observed; therefore it is not afraid of them, nor will flee from them;

slingstones are turned with him into stubble;
are no more regarded by him than if stubble was cast at him; not only stones out of a sling, but out of an engine; and such is the hardness of the skin of the crocodile, that, as Isidore says F5, the strokes of the strongest stones are rebounded by it, yea, even it is said to withstand against musket shot F6.


FOOTNOTES:

F5 Origin. l. 12. c. 6.
F6 Mandelsloe in Harris's Voyages vol. 1. p. 759.

Job 41:28 In-Context

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.
30 Its undersides are like broken pieces of pottery. It leaves a trail in the mud like a threshing sled.
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