Job 41:23

Filipino Cebuano Bible

23 Ang mga bahin sa iyang unod nagatapot: Sila mga malig-on sa ibabaw niya; sila dili magango.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

flakes: Heb. fallings

are joined: Job 41:17

Reciprocal: Job 40:17 - the Revelation 9:9 - they had

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The flakes of his flesh are joined together,.... The muscles of his hefty are not flaccid and flabby, but solid and firmly compacted;

they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved; that is, not very easily, not without a large sharp cutting knife, and that used with much strength.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The flakes of his flesh are joined together - Margin, “fallings.” The Hebrew word used here means anything “falling,” or “pendulous,” and the reference here is, probably, to the pendulous parts of the flesh of the animal; the flabby parts; the dew-laps. In animals commonly these parts about the neck and belly are soft, pendulous, and contribute little to their strength. The meaning here is, that in the leviathan, instead of being thus flabby and pendulous, they were compact and firm. This is strikingly true of the crocodile. The belly is, indeed, more soft and penetrable than the other parts of the body, but there is nothing like the soft and pendulous dew-laps of most animals.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 41:23. The flakes of his flesh — His muscles are strongly and firmly compacted.