John Gill Commentary Job 41:28

"The arrow cannot make him flee: Sling-stones are turned with him into stubble." — Job 41:28 (ASV)

The arrow cannot make him flee
The skin of the crocodile is so hard, as Peter Martyr says, that it cannot be pierced with arrows, as before observed; therefore it is not afraid of them, nor will flee from them;

slingstones are turned with him into stubble ;
are no more regarded by him than if stubble was cast at him; not only stones out of a sling, but out of an engine; and such is the hardness of the skin of the crocodile, that, as Isidore says ^F5 , the strokes of the strongest stones are rebounded by it, yea, even it is said to withstand against musket shot ^F6 .

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FOOTNOTES:

• F5: Origin. l. 12. c. 6.
• F6: Mandelsloe in Harris's Voyages vol. 1. p. 759.