Job 41:16 (BSB)
One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.
Commentary on Job 41:16
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Job 41:11-34: God, having in the foregoing verses shown Job how unable he was to deal with the leviathan, here sets forth his own power in that massy mighty creature. Here is, I. God's sovereign dominion and independency laid down, Job 41:11. 1. That he is indebted to none of his creatures.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on 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...
- Adam Clarke (Methodist), Clarke's Commentary on the Bible on Job 41:16: One is so near to another - It has already been stated, that a musket-ball fired at him in any direction cannot make a passage through his scales.
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Job 41:15-17: Job 41:15-17 15 A pride are the furrows of the shields, Shut by a rigid seal. 16 One joineth on to the other, And no air entereth between them. 17 One upon another they are arranged, They hold fast together, inseparably. Since the writer uses אפיק both in the signif.