Job 41:28

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

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The arrow - Hebrew “the son of the bow.” So Lamentations 3:13 , margin. This use of the word son is common in the Scriptures and in all Oriental...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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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....
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Second Speech of the Almighty (concluded) The second great creature, the Crocodile (with which the 'leviathan' is generally identified) is now...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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 ob...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood He neither fears, nor feels, the blows of the one more than of the other. The arrow cannot ma...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

11 Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine. 12 I will not conceal his parts, nor his...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The arrow, Heb. the son of the bow ; as it is elsewhere called the son of the quiver , Lamentations 3:13 ; the quiver being as it were the mot...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Notes Job 41:1 . “ Canst thou draw out Leviathan with a hook .” The term “Leviathan” (לִוְיָתָן) rendered here by the SEPTUAGINT, SYRIAC, and ARA...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 41:1 . Canst thou draw out leviathan? This word is rendered by the LXX, “dragon.” It occurs in Isaiah 27:1 , and is rendered whale, dragon,...
The Biblical Illustrator

Canst thou draw out Leviathan? Behemoth and leviathan The description of the “behemoth” in the preceding chapter and the “leviathan” here sugge...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job's Weakness when Compared with the Strength of the Crocodile
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The arrow, literally, "the son of the quiver," cannot make him flee; slingstones are turned with him into stubble, utterly powerless to harm him.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Habakkuk 1:10 ; Job 39:7
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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

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

Related Commentaries of Job 41:28

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 41:28