Job 41:27

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It regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.

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  • Job 41:28-30
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    28 Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones become like chaff to it.

    29 A club is counted as a piece of straw; it laughs at the rattling of the lance.

    30 Its underparts are the sharp points of potsherds, it leaves its mark in the mud like a threshing sledge.

  • Job 41:23-26
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    23 The folds of its flesh are tightly joined; they are firm on it, immovable.

    24 Its heart is hard as rock, hard as a lower millstone.

    25 When it rises up, the mighty are terrified, at its thrashing about they withdraw.

    26 Whoever strikes it with a sword will have no effect, nor with the spear, arrow, or dart.

  • Job 40:18-19
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    18 Its bones are tubes of bronze, its limbs like bars of iron.

    19 It ranks first among the works of God, the One who made it has furnished it with a sword.

  • 24 If he flees from an iron weapon, then an arrow from a bronze bow pierces him.

  • 2 Iron is taken from the ground, and rock is poured out as copper.

  • Job 39:22-24
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    22 It laughs at fear and is not dismayed; it does not shy away from the sword.

    23 On it the quiver rattles; the lance and javelin flash.

    24 In excitement and impatience it consumes the ground; it cannot stand still when the trumpet is blown.

  • 12 Can you people who are like iron and bronze break that iron fist from the north?

  • 23 The sky above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron.

  • 12 Is my strength like that of stones? or is my flesh made of bronze?

  • 16 For he shattered the bronze gates, and hacked through the iron bars.

  • 6 He had bronze shin guards on his legs, and a bronze javelin was slung over his shoulders.

  • 19 Would your wealth sustain you, so that you would not be in distress, even all your mighty efforts?

  • 19 I 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.

  • 15 Does 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!

  • 12 A 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.

  • 21 He pours contempt on noblemen and disarms the powerful.

  • 34 He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend even the strongest bow.

  • 7 Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?

  • 35 He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend even the strongest bow.

  • 28 So I waste away like something rotten, like a garment eaten by moths.

  • 18 Like a madman who shoots firebrands and deadly arrows,

  • 21 His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.

  • 33 Its legs were of iron; its feet were partly of iron and partly of clay.

  • Jer 6:28-30
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    28 I 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.

    29 The 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.

    30 They are regarded as‘rejected silver’ because the LORD rejects them.”

  • 17 As iron sharpens iron, so a person sharpens his friend.

  • 16 If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,

  • 17 All 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.

  • 31 The 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.

  • 9 He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his weapons.

  • 10 It 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!

  • 26 He strikes them for their wickedness, in a place where people can see,

  • 20 To 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.

  • 9 Before 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.

  • 40 Then 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.

  • Eccl 10:9-10
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    9 One who quarries stones may be injured by them; one who splits logs may be endangered by them.

    10 If 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.

  • 22 He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword;