Job 41:16

16 one is so close to the next that no air can come between them;

Job 41:16 Meaning and Commentary

Job 41:16

One is so near to another, that no air can come between
them.
] This shows that it cannot be understood of the skin of the whale, and the hardness and strength of that, which is alike and of a piece; whereas those scales, or be they what they may, though closely joined, yet are distinct: those who interpret this of whales that have teeth, and these of the teeth, observe, that as they have teeth to the number of forty or fifty in the lower jaw, in the upper one fire holes or sockets into which they go; and they are so very close that no wind or air can come between them ^F7.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 Vid. Scheuchzer. ut supra. (Physic. Sacr. vol. 4. p. 848.)

Job 41:16 In-Context

14 Who can pry open the doors of his face, so close to his terrible teeth?

15 "His pride is his rows of scales, tightly sealed together -

16 one is so close to the next that no air can come between them;

17 they are stuck one to another, interlocked and impervious.

18 "When he sneezes, light flashes out; his eyes are like the shimmer of dawn.