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Job 41:16

One piece of his hard skin is so close to another that no air can come between them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Leviathan;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Air;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Leviathan;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Air;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Leviathan;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Air;   Leviathan;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Flour;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
One scale is so close to anotherthat no air can pass between them.
Hebrew Names Version
One is so near to another, That no air can come between them.
King James Version
One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
English Standard Version
One is so near to another that no air can come between them.
New Century Version
Each shield is so close to the next one that no air can go between them.
New English Translation
each one is so close to the next that no air can come between them.
Amplified Bible
"One is so near to another That no air can come between them.
New American Standard Bible
"One is so close to another That no air can come between them.
World English Bible
One is so near to another, That no air can come between them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
One is set to another, that no winde can come betweene them.
Legacy Standard Bible
One is so near to anotherThat no air can come between them.
Berean Standard Bible
One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them.
Contemporary English Version
firmly bound and closer together
Complete Jewish Bible
His heart is as hard as a stone, yes, hard as a lower millstone.
Darby Translation
One is so near to another that no air can come between them;
Easy-to-Read Version
They are so close to each other that no air can pass between them.
George Lamsa Translation
His mouth is tied up, and closely shut, as with a seal.
Good News Translation
Each one is joined so tight to the next, not even a breath can come between.
Lexham English Bible
They are close to one another— even the air cannot come between them.
Literal Translation
one is so near to another that no air can come between them;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
One is so ioyned to another, that no ayre can come in:
American Standard Version
One is so near to another, That no air can come between them.
Bible in Basic English
One is so near to the other that no air may come between them.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, firm as the nether millstone.
King James Version (1611)
One is so neere to another, that no ayre can come betweene them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
One is so ioyned to another, that no ayre can come in:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And when he turns, he is a terror to the four-footed wild beasts which leap upon the earth.
English Revised Version
One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Oon is ioyned to another; and sotheli brething goith not thorouy tho.
Update Bible Version
One is so near to another, That no air can come between them.
Webster's Bible Translation
One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
New King James Version
One is so near another That no air can come between them;
New Living Translation
They are so close together that no air can get between them.
New Revised Standard
One is so near to another that no air can come between them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
One to another, they join, and, air, cannot enter between them;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(41-7) One is joined to another, and not so much as any air can come between them:
Revised Standard Version
One is so near to another that no air can come between them.
Young's Literal Translation
One unto another they draw nigh, And air doth not enter between them.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"One is so near to another That no air can come between them.

Contextual Overview

11 Who has given Me everything, that I should pay him back? Whatever is under the whole heaven is Mine. 12 "I will not keep quiet about his legs, or his powerful strength, or the good way he is made. 13 Who can take off his outside clothing? Who can get through his hard skin? 14 Who can open the doors of his mouth? Around his teeth is much fear. 15 His hard covering is his pride. He is shut up as with a lock. 16 One piece of his hard skin is so close to another that no air can come between them. 17 They are joined one to another. They hold on to each other and cannot be separated. 18 His breath gives out light. And his eyes are like those of the first light of day. 19 Burning light goes out of his mouth. Fire comes out. 20 Smoke goes out of his nostrils, as from a boiling pot and burning grass.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 37:14
Then Israel said, "Go now, see if it is well with your brothers and with the flock. Then come and tell me." So he sent him from the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
Genesis 40:8
They said to him, "We have had a dream and there is no one to tell us what it means." Then Joseph said to them, "Do not the meanings of dreams belong to God? Tell them to me."
Genesis 41:14
Pharaoh then called for Joseph. And they brought him out of the prison in a hurry. He cut off the hair on his face and put on clean clothes. Then he came to Pharaoh.
Genesis 41:15
Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have had a dream. But no one can tell me what it means. I have heard it said that you are able to hear a dream and tell what it means."
Genesis 41:18
I saw seven cows coming out of the Nile. They were fat and good-looking, and they ate the grass beside the river.
Genesis 41:23
Then I saw seven heads of grain come after them. They were small and were dry because of the east wind.
Genesis 41:28
It is as I have said to Pharaoh. God has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do.
Genesis 41:30
But after them will come seven years when there will be no food. The time of much food will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The time of no food will destroy the land.
Numbers 12:6
the Lord said, "Now listen to Me. If there is a man who speaks for God among you, I the Lord will make Myself known to him in a special dream. I will speak with him in a dream.
2 Kings 6:27
And he said, "If the Lord does not help you, from where can I help you? From the grain-floor, or from the grape-crusher?"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 g.

g Vid. Scheuchzer. ut supra. (Physic. Sacr. vol. 4. p. 848.)

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 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.


 
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