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Job 41:28

span data-lang="hrv" data-trans="cro" data-ref="job.41.1" class="versetxt"> Zalud je nadu u njega gojiti, na pogled njegov čovjek već pogiba. Junaka nema da njega razdraži, tko će mu se u lice suprotstavit'? Tko se sukobi s njim i živ ostade? Pod nebesima tog čovjeka nema! Prešutjet neću njegove udove, ni silnu snagu, ni ljepotu stasa. Tko mu smije razodjenut' odjeću, tko li kroz dvostruk prodrijeti mu oklop? Tko će mu ralje rastvorit' dvokrilne kad strah vlada oko zubi njegovih? Hrbat mu je od ljuskavih štitova, zapečaćenih pečatom kamenim. Jedni uz druge tako se sljubiše da među njima dah ne bi prošao. Tako su čvrsto slijepljeni zajedno: priljubljeni, razdvojit' se ne mogu. Kad kihne, svjetlost iz njega zapršti, poput zorinih vjeđa oči su mu. Zublje plamsaju iz njegovih ralja, iskre ognjene iz njih se prosiplju. Iz nozdrva mu sukljaju dimovi kao iz kotla što kipi na vatri. Dah bi njegov zapalio ugljevlje, jer mu iz ralja plamenovi suču. U šiji leži sva snaga njegova, a ispred njega užas se prostire. Kad se ispravi, zastrepe valovi i prema morskoj uzmiču pučini. Poput pećine srce mu je tvrdo, poput mlinskoga kamena otporno. Pregibi tusta mesa srasli su mu, čvrsti su kao da su saliveni. Zgodi li ga mač, od njeg se odbije, tako i koplje, sulica i strijela. Poput slame je za njega željezo, mjed je k'o drvo iscrvotočeno. On ne uzmiče od strelice s luka, stijenje iz praćke na nj k'o pljeva pada. K'o slamčica je toljaga za njega, koplju se smije kad zazviždi nad njim. Crepovlje oštro ima na trbuhu i blato njime ore k'o drljačom. Pod njim vrtlog sav k'o lonac uskipi, uspjeni more k'o pomast u kotlu. Za sobom svijetlu ostavlja on brazdu, regbi, bijelo runo bezdan prekriva. Ništa slično na zemlji ne postoji i niti je tko tako neustrašiv. I na najviše on s visoka gleda, kralj je svakome, i najponosnijim."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Leviathan;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Sling;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Leviathan;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Boyhood ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Leviathan;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hunting;   Leviathan;   Straw;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Arms - armor;  

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

slingstones: Job 39:7, Habakkuk 1:10

Reciprocal: Exodus 26:28 - reach Lamentations 3:13 - arrows

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The arrow cannot make him flee,.... The skin of the crocodile is so hard, as Peter Martyr says, that it cannot be pierced with arrows, as before observed; therefore it is not afraid of them, nor will flee from them;

slingstones are turned with him into stubble; are no more regarded by him than if stubble was cast at him; not only stones out of a sling, but out of an engine; and such is the hardness of the skin of the crocodile, that, as Isidore says e, the strokes of the strongest stones are rebounded by it, yea, even it is said to withstand against musket shot f.

e Origin. l. 12. c. 6. f Mandelsloe in Harris's Voyages, &c. vol. 1. p. 759.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The arrow - Hebrew “the son of the bow.” So Lamentations 3:13, margin. This use of the word son is common in the Scriptures and in all Oriental poetry.

Sling-stones - The sling was early used in war and in hunting, and by skill and practice it could be so employed as to be a formidable weapon; see Judges 20:16; 1Sa 17:40, 1 Samuel 17:49. As one of the weapons of attack on a foe it is mentioned here, though there is no evidence that the sling was ever actually used in endeavoring to destroy the crocodile. The meaning is, that all the common weapons used by men in attacking an enemy had no effect on him.

Are turned with him into stubble - Produce no more effect on him than it would to throw stubble at him.


 
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