English Standard Version
Job 41:29
29Clubs are counted as stubble; he laughs at the rattle of javelins.
Job 41:29 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
- New International Version (NIV)A club seems to it but a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Darts are regarded as straw; He laughs at the threat of javelins.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Clubs are like a blade of grass, and it laughs at the swish of javelins.
Context of Job 41:29
27He counts iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood. 28The arrow cannot make him flee; for him, sling stones are turned to stubble. Clubs are counted as stubble; he laughs at the rattle of javelins. 30His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire. 31He makes the deep boil like a pot; he makes the sea like a pot of ointment.
Read all of Job 41Job 41:29 word by word
כְּ֭קַשׁ נֶחְשְׁב֣וּ תוֹתָ֑ח וְ֝יִשְׂחַ֗ק לְרַ֣עַשׁ כִּידֽוֹן׃Read the interlinear
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Commentaries on Job 41:29
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 29Darts are counted as stubble - All these verses state that he cannot be wounded by any kind of weapon, and that he cannot be resisted by any human strength. A young crocodile, seen by M. Maillet, twelve feet long, and which had not eaten a morsel for thirty-five days, its mouth having been tied all that time, was nevertheless so strong, that with a blow of its tail it overturned a bale of coffee, and five or six men, with the utmost imaginable ease! What…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 29Darts are counted as stubble - The word rendered “darts” (תותח tôthâch ) occurs nowhere else in the Scriptures. It is from יתח, obsolete root, “to beat with a club.” The word here probably means clubs. Darts and spears are mentioned before, and the object seems to be to enumerate all the usual, instruments of attack. The singular is used here with a plural verb in a collective sense.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2929. Darts--rather, "clubs"; darts have been already mentioned (Job 41:26).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 41
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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