Job 41:17

17 cum adprehenderit eum gladius subsistere non poterit neque hasta neque torax

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 cor eius indurabitur quasi lapis et stringetur quasi malleatoris incus
16 cum sublatus fuerit timebunt angeli et territi purgabuntur
17 cum adprehenderit eum gladius subsistere non poterit neque hasta neque torax
18 reputabit enim quasi paleas ferrum et quasi lignum putridum aes
19 non fugabit eum vir sagittarius in stipulam versi sunt ei lapides fundae
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