Job 41:16

16 Quand il se lève, les plus forts tremblent, ils défaillent d'effroi.

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 Les fanons de sa chair sont adhérents; ils sont massifs, inébranlables.

15 Son cœur est massif comme une pierre, massif comme la meule de dessous.

16 Quand il se lève, les plus forts tremblent, ils défaillent d'effroi.

17 Quand on l'approche, l'épée ne sert à rien, ni la lance, ni le dard, ni la cuirasse.

18 Il regarde le fer comme de la paille, et l'airain comme du bois pourri.