Job 41 · Verse 30

Job 41:30

Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

Job 41:30, King James Version

Job 41:30 in other translations

BSB	His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.
WEB	His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
ASV	His underparts are like sharp potsherds: He spreadeth as it were a threshing-wain upon the mire.
YLT	Under him are sharp points of clay, He spreadeth gold on the mire.
DARBY	His under parts are sharp potsherds: he spreadeth a threshing-sledge upon the mire.
BBE	Under him are sharp edges of broken pots: as if he was pulling a grain-crushing instrument over the wet earth.
Webster	Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

What does Job 41:30 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

30. stones--rather, "potsherds," that is, the sharp and pointed scales on the belly, like broken pieces of pottery. sharp-pointed things--rather, "a threshing instrument," but not on the fruits of the earth, but "on the mire"; irony. When he lies on the mire, he leaves the marks of his scales so imprinted on it, that one might fancy a threshing instrument with its sharp teeth had been drawn over it (Is 28:27).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Job 41:30 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

תַּ֭חְתָּיוTach.tavunder itH8478

חַדּ֣וּדֵיcha.Du.dei[are] sharp points ofH2303

חָ֑רֶשׂCha.respotsherd[s]H2789

יִרְפַּ֖דyir.Padit spreads outH7502

חָר֣וּץcha.Rutza threshing sledgeH2742

עֲלֵי\־'a.lei-onH5921

טִֽיט\׃TitmudH2916

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 41:30

Isaiah 41:15
Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

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Treasury of Scripture 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

Job 41:29
Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.
Job 41:30
Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.
Job 41:31
He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.

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Job 41:30 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Por debajo tiene agudas conchas; Imprime su agudez en el suelo.