Job 41:16

16 Each one is joined so tight to the next, not even a breath can come between.

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 Who can make him open his jaws, ringed with those terrifying teeth?

15 His back is made of rows of shields, fastened together and hard as stone.

16 Each one is joined so tight to the next, not even a breath can come between.

17 They all are fastened so firmly together that nothing can ever pull them apart.

18 Light flashes when he sneezes, and his eyes glow like the rising sun.