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Job 41:26–27

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41:26Whoever strikes it with a sword38

will have no effect,39

nor with the spear, arrow, or dart.

41:27It regards iron as straw

and bronze as rotten wood.

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Footnotes

  1. 38 This is the clearest reading, following A. B. Davidson, Job, 285. The versions took different readings of the construction.
  2. 39 The verb קוּם (qum, “stand”) with בְּלִי (béli, “not”) has the sense of “does not hold firm,” or “gives way.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Though the sword reaches him, it does not avail,

nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin.

He counts iron as straw,

and bronze as rotten wood.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

The sword that reaches it has no effect,

nor does the spear or the dart or the javelin.

Iron it treats like straw

and bronze like rotten wood.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The sword that reaches him will have no effect,

nor will a spear, dart, or arrow.

He regards iron as straw,

and bronze as rotten wood.

NLTNew Living Translation

No sword can stop it,

no spear, dart, or javelin.

Iron is nothing but straw to that creature,

and bronze is like rotten wood.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Reaching it with the sword does not avail,

nor with the spear, the dart, or the javelin.

It regards iron as straw,

bronze as rotten wood.

KJV 1900King James Version

The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold:

The spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.

He esteemeth iron as straw,

And brass as rotten wood.