Job 41:26-34

26 The sword that reaches him will have no effect, nor will a spear, dart, or arrow.^[a]

27 He regards iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.

28 No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like stubble to him.

29 A club is regarded as stubble, and he laughs at the whirring of a javelin.^[b]

30 His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading the mud like a threshing sledge.^[c]

31 He makes the depths seethe like a caldron; he makes the sea like an ointment jar.

32 He leaves a shining wake behind him;^[d] one would think the deep had white hair!

33 He has no equal on earth- a creature devoid of fear!^[e]

34 He surveys everything that is haughty; he is king over all the proud beasts.^[f][g]

Job 41:26-34 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 41

A large description is here given of the leviathan, from the difficulty and danger of taking it, from whence it is inferred that none can stand before God, Job 41:1-10; from the several parts of him, his face, teeth, scales, eyes, mouth and neck, flesh and heart, Job 41:11-24; and from various wonderful terrible things said of him, and ascribed to him, Job 41:25-34.

Footnotes

• [a]. Jb 39:23
• [b]. Jb 39:24-25
• [c]. Isa 41:15; Am 1:3
• [d]. Lit a path
• [e]. Gn 9:2
• [f]. Lit the children of pride
• [g]. Jb 28:7-8