Job 41:27
He regards iron as straw and bronze as rotten wood.
BSB
ASV
He counteth iron as straw, And brass as rotten wood.
KJV
He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
For he shall esteem iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood. 19. That which above He called a 'spear,' he mentioned again below under the appellation of 'iron:' and that which He spoke of as a 'breastplate,' He again designated by mentioning it as 'brass.' For iron is sharpened, that the adversary may be wounded; but brass is hardly destroyed by any rust.
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.)
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.