Job 41:29
Modern Translations
New International Version
A club seems to it but a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.

New Living Translation
Clubs are like a blade of grass, and it laughs at the swish of javelins.

English Standard Version
Clubs are counted as stubble; he laughs at the rattle of javelins.

Berean Study Bible
A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.

New American Standard Bible
“Clubs are regarded as stubble; He laughs at the rattling of the javelin.

NASB 1995
"Clubs are regarded as stubble; He laughs at the rattling of the javelin.

NASB 1977
“Clubs are regarded as stubble; He laughs at the rattling of the javelin.

Amplified Bible
“Clubs [also] are regarded as stubble; He laughs at the rushing and the rattling of the javelin.

Christian Standard Bible
A club is regarded as stubble, and he laughs at the sound of a javelin.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A club is regarded as stubble, and he laughs at the sound of a javelin.

Contemporary English Version
it simply smiles at spears, and striking it with a stick is like slapping it with straw.

Good News Translation
To him a club is a piece of straw, and he laughs when men throw spears.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
It considers clubs to be like stubble, and it laughs at a rattling javelin.

International Standard Version
Clubs are like twigs; he laughs at the whoosh of the javelin.

NET Bible
A club is counted as a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.

New King James Version
Darts are regarded as straw; He laughs at the threat of javelins.

King James 2000 Bible
Darts are counted as straw: he laughs at the threat of a javelin.

New Heart English Bible
Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.

World English Bible
Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.

American King James Version
Darts are counted as stubble: he laughs at the shaking of a spear.

American Standard Version
Clubs are counted as stubble: He laugheth at the rushing of the javelin.

A Faithful Version
Clubs are counted as stubble; he laughs at the shaking of a javelin.

Darby Bible Translation
Clubs are counted as stubble; he laugheth at the shaking of a javelin.

English Revised Version
Clubs are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the rushing of the javelin.

Webster's Bible Translation
Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
(41:20) The dartes are counted as strawe: and hee laugheth at the shaking of the speare.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
(41:20) He counteth the dartes no better then a strawe, he laugheth him to scorne that shaketh the speare.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
He counteth the hammer no better then a strawe, he laugheth him to scorne that shaketh the speare.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Darts have been reckoned as stubble, "" And he laughs at the shaking of a javelin.

Young's Literal Translation
As stubble have darts been reckoned, And he laugheth at the shaking of a javelin.

Smith's Literal Translation
The bludgeon was reckoned to him for stubble: and he will laugh at the shaking of the javelin.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
As stubble will he esteem the hammer, and he will laugh him to scorn who shaketh the spear.

Catholic Public Domain Version
He will treat the hammer as if it were stubble, and he will ridicule those who brandish the spear.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
He laughs at a spear

Lamsa Bible
He considers iron like straw, and brass like rotten wood.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Clubs are accounted as stubble; He laugheth at the rattling of the javelin.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Mauls are counted as stubble; and he laughs to scorn the waving of the firebrand.
















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