Job 41:17

17 The thickest and toughest of hides, impenetrable!

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 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.
19 Comets pour out of his mouth, fireworks arc and branch.
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