Job 41:29

Croatian Bible

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."

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2 Chronicles 26:14

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

Darts are counted as stubble,.... Darts being mentioned before, perhaps something else is meant here, and, according to Ben Gersom, the word signifies an engine out of which stones are cast to batter down walls; but these are of no avail against the leviathan;

he laugheth at the shaking of a spear; at him, knowing it cannot hurt him; the crocodile, as Thevenot says g, is proof against the halberd. The Septuagint version is, "the shaking of the pyrophorus", or torch bearer; one that carried a torch before the army, who, when shook, it was a token to begin the battle; which the leviathan being fearless of laughs at it; :-.

g Travels, part 1. b. 2. c. 72. p. 245.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Darts are counted as stubble - The word rendered “darts” (תותח tôthâch) occurs nowhere else in the Scriptures. It is from יתח, obsolete root, “to beat with a club.” The word here probably means clubs. Darts and spears are mentioned before, and the object seems to be to enumerate all the usual, instruments of attack. The singular is used here with a plural verb in a collective sense.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 41:29. Darts are counted as stubble — All these verses state that he cannot be wounded by any kind of weapon, and that he cannot be resisted by any human strength.

A young crocodile, seen by M. Maillet, twelve feet long, and which had not eaten a morsel for thirty-five days, its mouth having been tied all that time, was nevertheless so strong, that with a blow of its tail it overturned a bale of coffee, and five or six men, with the utmost imaginable ease! What power then must lodge in one twenty feet long, well fed, and in health!