Job 41:28 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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.