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Job 41:29

Job 41:29
Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Sharp stones are under him,.... And yet give him no pain nor uneasiness;

he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire; and makes his bed of them and lies upon them; as sharp stones, as before,…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Darts 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…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

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,…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 41:11-34

God, having in the foregoing verses shown Job how unable he was to deal with the leviathan, here sets forth his own power in that massy mighty creature. Here is,

I. God's sovereign dominion and…

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