Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 41:28
The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
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.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
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.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
28. arrowliterally, “sonof the bow”; Oriental imagery (La3:13; Margin).
stubbleArrows produceno more effect than it would to throw stubble at him.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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 e, the strokes of the strongest stones are rebounded by it, yea, even it is said to withstand against musket shot f.
e Origin. l. 12. c. 6. f Mandelsloe in Harris’s Voyages, &c. vol. 1. p. 759.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
28. The arrow Literally, the son of a bow. Compare “sons of his quiver,” Lam 3:13. See note on chap. 5. 7.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Job 41:28. Sling-stones are turned with him into stubble He throweth about sling-stones like stubble. Heath. Sling-stones are no more to him than stubble. Houb. An extraordinary instance of the strength of a crocodile is related by Maillet. “I saw one,” says he, “twelve feet long, which had not eaten any thing for thirty-five days (having had its mouth tied close during that interval), which with a single blow from its tail overturned five or six men together with a bale of coffee, as easily as I could overturn six men at a game of draughts.” What force then must one of twenty feet long have, in its full strength and not weakened by such a fast? Thevenot also speaks of one which he had stripped of its skin, and says, that it was so strong, though but eight feet in length, that after they had turned him upon his back, and four persons stood upon him with both their feet, while they were cutting open his belly, he moved himself with so much force as to throw them off him with violence. See Maillet’s Descript. of Egypt, p. 33, and Thevenot, part. 2: p. 72.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
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
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
slingstones: Job 39:7, Hab 1:10
Reciprocal: Exo 26:28 – reach Lam 3:13 – arrows