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