Job 41:16

16 Nothing can get through that proud skin - impervious to weapons and weather,

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 And who would dare knock at the door of his mouth filled with row upon row of fierce teeth?

15 His pride is invincible; nothing can make a dent in that pride.

16 Nothing can get through that proud skin - impervious to weapons and weather,

17 The thickest and toughest of hides, impenetrable!

18 "He snorts and the world lights up with fire, he blinks and the dawn breaks.