Job 41:26-29

41:26 Whoever strikes it with a sword ¹ 

will have no effect, ² 

nor with the spear, arrow, or dart.

41:27 It regards iron as straw

and bronze as rotten wood.

41:28 Arrows ³  do not make it flee;

slingstones become like chaff to it.

41:29 A club is counted ⁴  as a piece of straw;

it laughs at the rattling of the lance.

[41:26]  ¹ tn This is the clearest reading, following A. B. Davidson, Job, 285. The versions took different readings of the construction.

[41:26]  ² tn The verb קוּם (qum, “stand”) with בְּלִי (bÿli, “not”) has the sense of “does not hold firm,” or “gives way.”

[41:28]  ³ tn Heb “the son of the bow.”

[41:29]  ⁴ tn The verb is plural, but since there is no expressed subject it is translated as a passive here.