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29 Clubs are like twigs;[a]
    he laughs at the whoosh of the javelin.

30 “Beneath him he is armored as with sharp potsherds;
    he tears through muddy ground
        like a threshing sledge through grain.[b]
31 He causes the deep to boil like water in[c] a pot,
    and churns the sea like one stirs ointment.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 41:29 Lit. stubble
  2. Job 41:30 The Heb. lacks through grain
  3. Job 41:31 The Heb. lacks water in

29 A club seems to it but a piece of straw;(A)
    it laughs(B) at the rattling of the lance.
30 Its undersides are jagged potsherds,
    leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.(C)
31 It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron(D)
    and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment.(E)

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