John Gill's Exposition on Job 41:28

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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The arrow cannot make him flee, etc.] 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 f1564, the strokes of the strongest stones are rebounded by it, yea, even it is said to withstand against musket shot f1565.

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