Job - 41:27

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27 He counts iron as straw; and brass as rotten wood.

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Explanation and meaning of Job 41:27.

Differing Translations

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He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
He counteth iron as straw, And brass as rotten wood.
For he shall esteem iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
He esteemeth iron as straw, bronze as rotten wood.
He reckoneth iron as straw, brass as rotten wood.
He esteems iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
Iron is to him as dry grass, and brass as soft wood.
He counts iron as straw; and bronze as rotten wood.
For he will consider iron as if it were chaff, and brass as if it were rotten wood.

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Historical Commentaries

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He esteemeth iron as straw - He regards instruments made of iron and brass as if they were straw or rotten wood. That is, they make no impression on him. This will agree better with the crocodile than any other animal. So hard is his skin, that a musket-ball will not penetrate it; see numerous quotations proving the hardness of the skin of the crooodile, in Bochart.

He esteemeth iron as straw,.... You may as well cast a straw at him as a bar of iron; it will make no impression on his steeled back, which is as a coat of mail to him; so Eustathius affirms (d) that the sharpest iron is rebounded and blunted by him;
and brass as rotten wood; or steel, any instrument made of it, though ever so strong or piercing.
(d) Apud ibid. (Bochard. Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 5. c. 17. col. 785.)

iron . . . brass--namely, weapons.

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