Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.
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Gill's Exposition
He maketh the deep to boil (k) like a pot,.... Which is all in a from through the violent agitation and motion of the waves, caused by its tossing and tumbling about; which better suits with the whale…
Barnes' Notes
Sharp stones are under him - Margin, as in Hebrew, “pieces of pot sherd.” The Hebrew word (חדוד chaddûd), means “sharp, pointed”; and the phrase used here means “the sharp points of a potsherd,” or…
Adam Clarke
Sharp stones are under him - So hard and impenetrable are his scales, that splinters of flint are the same to him as the softest reeds.
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…
Cambridge Bible
The impression left where he has lien.
Under him he hath sharp potsherds,
He spreadeth a threshing-sledge upon the mire.
The scales of the belly, though smoother than those on the back, still are…