Job 41:28

Job 41:28 The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.

Ver. 28. The arrow cannot make him flee] Heb. Sons of the bow; as, Job 5:7, sparks are called Boas of the coal. Arrows were then as much in use as bullets are now.

Slingstones are turned with him into stubble] Those stones which the sling casts with so much force make as little impression upon his body as a straw would, which the hand of a child should push.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

arrow--literally, "son of the bow"; Oriental imagery (Lam 3:13; Margin).

stubble--Arrows produce no more effect than it would to throw stubble at him.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

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 (g), 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 Oba 1:18.

(g) Travels, part 1. b. 2. c. 72. p. 245.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The arrow - Hebrew “the son of the bow.” So Lam 3:13, margin. This use of the word son is common in the Scriptures and in all Oriental poetry.

Sling-stones - The sling was early used in war and in hunting, and by skill and practice it could be so employed as to be a formidable weapon; see Jdg 20:16; 1Sa 17:40, 1Sa 17:49. As one of the weapons of attack on a foe it is mentioned here, though there is no evidence that the sling was ever actually used in endeavoring to destroy the crocodile. The meaning is, that all the common weapons used by men in attacking an enemy had no effect on him.

Are turned with him into stubble - Produce no more effect on him than it would to throw stubble at him.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

CHAPTER XLI.

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

The arrow, Heb. the son of the bow; as it is elsewhere called the son of the quiver, Lam 3:13; the quiver being as it were the mother or womb that bears it, and the bow as the father that begets it, or sendeth it forth.

Sling-stones; great stones cast out of slings, which have a great force and efficacy; of which see on 2Ch 26:14.

Are turned with him into stubble; hurt him no more than a blow with a little stubble.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

28. The arrow — Literally, the son of a bow. Compare “sons of his quiver,” Lam_3:13. See note on chap. 5. 7.

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Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The arrow cannot make him flee; literally, the son of the bow. (comp. Lam_3:13, where arrows are called "sons of the quiver Sling-stones are turned with him into stubble. (On the use of the sling as a weapon of war in early times, see the author"s. "Hist. of Ancient Egypt," vol. 1. p. 449; and comp. "Ancient Monarchies," vol. 2, pp. 35, 36 1Sa_17:49, 50 2Ki_3:25) (On "stubble" as a metaphor for weakness, see above, Job_21:18, and compare the next verse)

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Turned - Hurt him no more than a blow with a little stubble.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

to him sling stones become chaff

Chaff cannot hurt Leviathan, and sling stones are just as ineffective as chaff. (See: Metaphor)

him ... he ... His

The words "him," "he," and "his" refer to Leviathan.

Clubs are regarded as straw

A club made of straw would not hurt him, and a club made of wood would not hurt him. This can be translated in active form. AT: "He thinks of clubs as if they were straw" (See: Active or Passive)

he laughs at the whirring flight of a spear

The person throwing the spear hopes that the spear will kill Leviathan, but the writer speaks as if Leviathan knows the spear will not kill him and so laughs. (See: Personification)

he leaves a spreading trail in the mud as if he were a threshing sledge

Just as a threshing sledge goes over grain on a threshing floor and turns it to powder, so Leviathan's tail leaves a trail in the mud as he wags it when he walks. (See: Simile)

translationWords

chaff

thresh

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