Job 41:16

16 tan juntos están uno al otroque no dejan pasar ni el aire;

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 ¿Quién se atreve a abrir el abismo de sus fauces,coronadas de terribles colmillos?

15 Tiene el lomo recubierto de hileras de escudos,todos ellos unidos en cerrado tejido;

16 tan juntos están uno al otroque no dejan pasar ni el aire;

17 tan prendidos están uno del otro,tan unidos entre sí, que no pueden separarse.

18 Resopla y lanza deslumbrantes relámpagos;sus ojos se parecen a los rayos de la aurora.