Job 41:30

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."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Sharp stones: Heb. Sharp pieces of potsherd

he: So hard and impenetrable are his scales, that splinters of flint are the same to him as the softest reeds.

Gill's Notes on the 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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Sharp stones are under him - Margin, as in Hebrew, “pieces of pot sherd.” The Hebrew word (חדוד chaddûd), means “sharp, pointed”; and the phrase used here means “the sharp points of a potsherd,” or broken pieces of earthenware. The reference is, undoubtedly, to the scales of the animal, which were rough and pointed, like the broken pieces of earthenware. This description would not agree with the whale, and indeed will accord with no other animal so well as with the crocodile. The meaning is, that the under parts of his body, with which he rests upon the mire, are made up of sharp, pointed things, like broken pottery.

He spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire - That is, when he rests or stretches himself on the mud or slime of the bank of the river. The word used here and rendered “sharp pointed things” (חרוץ chârûts) means properly something “cut in;” then something sharpened or pointed; and is used to denote “a threshing sledge;” see this instrument described in Isaiah 28:27-28, note; Isaiah 41:15, note. It is not certain, however, that there is any allusion here to that instrument. It is rather to anything that is rough or pointed, and refers to the lower part of the animal as having this character. The Vulgate renders this, “Beneath him are the rays of the sun, and he reposeth on gold as on clay.” Dr. Harris, Dr. Good, and Prof. Lee, suppose it refers to what the animal lies on, meaning that he lies on splinters of rock and broken stone with as much readiness and ease as if it were clay. But the above seems to me to be the true interpretation. It is that of Gesenius, Rosenmuller, and Umbreit. Grotius understands it as meaning that the weapons thrown at him lie around him like broken pieces of pottery.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 41:30. Sharp stones are under him — So hard and impenetrable are his scales, that splinters of flint are the same to him as the softest reeds.