Job 41:16

16 Each shield is so close to the next one that no air can go 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 No one can force open its great jaws; they are filled with frightening teeth.

15 It has rows of shields on its back that are tightly sealed together.

16 Each shield is so close to the next one that no air can go between them.

17 They are joined strongly to one another; they hold on to each other and cannot be separated.

18 When it snorts, flashes of light are thrown out, and its eyes look like the light at dawn.