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Job 41:27

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

He esteemeth iron as straw,.... You may as well cast a straw at him as a bar of iron; it will make no impression on his steeled back, which is as a coat of mail to him; so Eustathius affirms that the sharpest iron is rebounded and blunted by him;[and] brass as rotten wood; or steel, any instrument made of it, though ever so strong or piercing.

Apud ibid. (Bochard. Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 5. c. 17. col. 785.

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