Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 41:29
Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
29. darts are counted ] Rather, clubs.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Darts are counted as stubble – The word rendered darts ( tothach) occurs nowhere else in the Scriptures. It is from , 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.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 29. Darts 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 power then must lodge in one twenty feet long, well fed, and in health!
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
So far is he from fearing it, and fleeing from it, that he scorns and defies it.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
29. Dartsrather, “clubs”;darts have been already mentioned (Job41:26).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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 comments on Ob 1:18].
g Travels, part 1. b. 2. c. 72. p. 245.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(29) Darts.Rather, clubs.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
29. Darts Thothahh. Either clubs, battle axe, or bludgeon. (Furst.) The like meaning of the same word in the Arabic favours the first of these definitions. The boomerang, or club-stick, (now called lissan, tongue,) was much in use among the ancient Egyptian soldiers, and, in close combat, was really a formidable weapon, as the experience of modern times sufficiently testifies. It was about two and a half feet long, and made of hard acacia wood. See Wilkinson, Anc. Egyptians, (P.A., i, p. 365.)
The spear The kidhon (javelin) or spear was borne upon the shoulder, as in the case of Goliath, (1Sa 17:6-7,) and was in common use among the Babylonians and Persians. Jer 6:23; Jer 50:42.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Job 41:29 Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
Ver. 29. Darts are counted as stubble ] When any thing in the decrees or decretals likes not the pope, he sets pales, that is, stubble, upon it; or Hoc non credo: so doth this leviathan upon all kinds of weapons; he slights them. The word here rendered darts is as strange as the weapon it signifieth is to us unknown, lapides ballistic, an engine whereby great stones were thrown against walls or towers (as now cannon balls), to make a breach in them. Catapulta, aries vel simile aliquod tormentum. Be they what they will, the whale fears them not, no, though they were as terrible to others as those two great pieces of ordinance cast by Alphonsus, duke of Ferrara; the one whereof he called the earthquake, the other grandiabolo, the great devil.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
darts = clubs. Not same word as in Job 41:26. (Hebrew. tothak).
laugheth. Figure of speech Prosopoaia. App-6.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
2Ch 26:14
Reciprocal: Job 39:18 – General Psa 104:26 – to play