Job 41:30
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New International Version (©2011)
Its undersides are jagged potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Its belly is covered with scales as sharp as glass. It plows up the ground as it drags through the mud.

English Standard Version (©2001)
His underparts are like sharp potsherds; he spreads himself like a threshing sledge on the mire.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"His underparts are like sharp potsherds; He spreads out like a threshing sledge on the mire.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading the mud like a threshing sledge.

International Standard Version (©2012)
"Beneath him he is armored as with sharp potsherds; he tears through muddy ground like a threshing sledge through grain.

NET Bible (©2006)
Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds, it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Its underside is like sharp pieces of broken pottery. It stretches out like a threshing sledge on the mud.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
His undersides are like sharp stones: he spreads sharp pointed marks upon the mire.

American King James Version
Sharp stones are under him: he spreads sharp pointed things on the mire.

American Standard Version
His underparts are like'sharp potsherds: He spreadeth as it were a threshing-wain upon the mire.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The beams of the sun shall be under him, and he shall strew gold under him like mire.

Darby Bible Translation
His under parts are sharp potsherds: he spreadeth a threshing-sledge upon the mire.

English Revised Version
His underparts are like sharp potsherds: he spreadeth as it were a threshing wain upon the mire.

Webster's Bible Translation
Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

World English Bible
His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

Young's Literal Translation
Under him are sharp points of clay, He spreadeth gold on the mire.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

41:1-34 Concerning Leviathan. - The description of the Leviathan, is yet further to convince Job of his own weakness, and of God's almighty power. Whether this Leviathan be a whale or a crocodile, is disputed. The Lord, having showed Job how unable he was to deal with the Leviathan, sets forth his own power in that mighty creature. If such language describes the terrible force of Leviathan, what words can express the power of God's wrath? Under a humbling sense of our own vileness, let us revere the Divine Majesty; take and fill our allotted place, cease from our own wisdom, and give all glory to our gracious God and Saviour. Remembering from whom every good gift cometh, and for what end it was given, let us walk humbly with the Lord.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 30. - Sharp stones are under him; rather, jagged potsherds are under him; i.e. "his belly is covered with jagged scales" - a thing which is true of the crocodile, but scarcely of any other beast. He spreadeth sharp pointed things (rather, a threshing-wain, or a corn-drag) upon the mire. He leaves on the mud on which he has lain, i.e. an impression as of an Oriental threshing-wain, or corn-drag, which is "a thick plank of timber, stuck full on the under side, of flints or hard cutting stones arranged in the form of the palate or rough tongue of a cow" (Sir C. Fellows, 'Asia Minor,' p. 70). The mud-banks on which crocodiles have been lying are said to be scored all over with such impressions.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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, shells of fishes, broken pieces of darts, arrows, and javelins thrown at him, which fall around him: this does not so well agree with the crocodile, the skin of whose belly is soft and thin; wherefore dolphins plunge under it and cut it with a thorn, as Pliny (h) relates, or with spiny fins (i); but with the whale, which lies among hard rocks and sharp stones, and large cutting pieces of ice, as in the northern seas.

(h) Nat. Hist. l. 8. c. 25. (i) Sandys's Travels, l. 2. p. 78.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

30. stones—rather, "potsherds," that is, the sharp and pointed scales on the belly, like broken pieces of pottery.

sharp-pointed things—rather, "a threshing instrument," but not on the fruits of the earth, but "on the mire"; irony. When he lies on the mire, he leaves the marks of his scales so imprinted on it, that one might fancy a threshing instrument with its sharp teeth had been drawn over it (Isa 28:27).

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God's Power Shown in Creatures
…29Darts are counted as stubble: he laughs at the shaking of a spear. 30Sharp stones are under him: he spreads sharp pointed things on the mire. 31He makes the deep to boil like a pot: he makes the sea like a pot of ointment. …

Job 41:29 A club seems to it but a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.
Job 41:31 It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.
Isaiah 41:15 "See, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.