Job 41:17

17 They are joined tightly to one another. They stick together and can't be forced apart.

Job 41:17 Meaning and Commentary

Job 41:17

They are joined one to another
One scale to another, or "a man in his brother" F8: which may seem to favour the notion of the whale's teeth in the sockets, which exactly answer to one another; but the next clause will by no means agree with them;

they stick together, that they cannot be sundered:
whereas they easily be, at least by the creature itself; but the scales of a crocodile are so closely joined and sealed together, that there is no parting them.


FOOTNOTES:

F8 (whyxab vya) "vir in fratre suo"; Montanus.

Job 41:17 In-Context

15 Its back has rows of shields that are close together.
16 Each one is so close to the next one that not even air can pass between them.
17 They are joined tightly to one another. They stick together and can't be forced apart.
18 The leviathan's snorting throws out flashes of light. Its eyes shine like the first light of day.
19 Fire seems to spray out of its mouth. Sparks of fire shoot out.
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