Job 41:29

29 A club seems to it but a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.

Job 41:29 in Other Translations

29 Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.

29 Clubs are counted as stubble; he laughs at the rattle of javelins.

29 Clubs are like a blade of grass, and it laughs at the swish of javelins.

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

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

Job 41:29 Meaning and Commentary

Job 41:29

Darts are counted as stubble
Darts being mentioned before, perhaps something else is meant here, and, according to Ben Gersom, the word signifies an engine out of which stones are cast to batter down walls; but these are of no avail against the leviathan;

he laugheth at the shaking of a spear;
at him, knowing it cannot hurt him; the crocodile, as Thevenot says ^F7, is proof against the halberd. The Septuagint version is, "the shaking of the pyrophorus", or torch bearer; one that carried a torch before the army, who, when shook, it was a token to begin the battle; which the leviathan being fearless of laughs at it; (See Gill on Obadiah 1:18).

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 Travels, part 1. b. 2. c. 72. p. 245.

Job 41:29 In-Context

27 Iron it treats like straw and bronze like rotten wood.

28 Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones are like chaff to it.

29 A club seems to it but a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.

30 Its undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

31 It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.

Cross References

• 1. ver 27
• 2. S Job 5:22