Job 41:27
It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.
It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.
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28Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones become like chaff to it.
29A club is counted as a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.
30Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds, it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge.
23The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm on it, immovable.
24Its heart is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.
25When it rises up, the mighty are terrified, at its thrashing about they withdraw.
26Whoever strikes it with a sword will have no effect, nor with the spear, arrow, or dart.
18Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like bars of iron.
19It ranks first among the works of God, the One who made it has furnished it with a sword.
24If he flees from an iron weapon, then an arrow from a bronze bow pierces him.
2Iron is taken from the ground, and rock is poured out as copper.
22It laughs at fear and is not dismayed; it does not shy away from the sword.
23On it the quiver rattles; the lance and javelin flash.
24In excitement and impatience it consumes the ground; it cannot stand still when the trumpet is blown.
12Can you people who are like iron and bronze break that iron fist from the north?
23The sky above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron.
12Is my strength like that of stones? or is my flesh made of bronze?
16For he shattered the bronze gates, and hacked through the iron bars.
6He had bronze shin guards on his legs, and a bronze javelin was slung over his shoulders.
19Would your wealth sustain you, so that you would not be in distress, even all your mighty efforts?
19I will break your strong pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze.
9(41:1) See, his expectation is wrong, he is laid low even at the sight of it.
15Does an ax exalt itself over the one who wields it, or a saw magnify itself over the one who cuts with it? As if a scepter should brandish the one who raises it, or a staff should lift up what is not made of wood!
12A blacksmith works with his tool and forges metal over the coals. He forms it with hammers; he makes it with his strong arm. He gets hungry and loses his energy; he drinks no water and gets tired.
21He pours contempt on noblemen and disarms the powerful.
34He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend even the strongest bow.
7Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?
35He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend even the strongest bow.
28So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.
18Like a madman who shoots firebrands and deadly arrows,
21His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.
33Its legs were of iron; its feet were partly of iron and partly of clay.
28I reported,“All of them are the most stubborn of rebels! They are as hard as bronze or iron. They go about telling lies. They all deal corruptly.
29The fiery bellows of judgment burn fiercely. But there is too much dross to be removed. The process of refining them has proved useless. The wicked have not been purged.
30They are regarded as‘rejected silver’ because the LORD rejects them.”
17As iron sharpens iron, so a person sharpens his friend.
16If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,
17All idolaters will prove to be stupid and ignorant. Every goldsmith will be disgraced by the idol he made. For the image he forges is merely a sham. There is no breath in any of those idols.
31The powerful will be like a thread of yarn, their deeds like a spark; both will burn together, and no one will put out the fire.
9He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his weapons.
10It is sharpened for slaughter, it is polished to flash like lightning!“‘Should we rejoice in the scepter of my son? No! The sword despises every tree!
26He strikes them for their wickedness, in a place where people can see,
20To make a contribution one selects wood that will not rot; he then seeks a skilled craftsman to make an idol that will not fall over.
9Before the kindling is even placed under your pots, he will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat.
7“Look, here is the man who would not make God his protector! He trusted in his great wealth and was confident about his plans to destroy others.”
18“Son of man, the house of Israel has become slag to me. All of them are like bronze, tin, iron, and lead in the furnace; they are the worthless slag of silver.
40Then there will be a fourth kingdom, one strong like iron. Just like iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything, and as iron breaks in pieces all of these metals, so it will break in pieces and crush the others.
9One who quarries stones may be injured by them; one who splits logs may be endangered by them.
10If an iron axhead is blunt and a workman does not sharpen its edge, he must exert a great deal of effort; so wisdom has the advantage of giving success.
22He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword;