Job 41:17

17 If spears should come against him, will effect nothing, the spear or the breast-plate.

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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 (whyxab vya) "vir in fratre suo"; Montanus.

Job 41:17 In-Context

15 His heart is firm as a stone, and it stands like an unyielding anvil.

16 And when he turns, a terror to the four-footed wild beasts which leap upon the earth.

17 If spears should come against him, will effect nothing, the spear or the breast-plate.

18 For he considers iron as chaff, and brass as rotten wood.

19 The bow of brass shall not would him, he deems a slinger as grass.