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

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
A club seems to it but a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.

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

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

King James Bible
Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.

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

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

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

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

Darby Bible Translation
Clubs are counted as stubble; he laugheth 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.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

29. Darts—rather, "clubs"; darts have been already mentioned (Job 41:26).