Job 41:16
One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
Job 41:16 in other translations
| BSB | One scale is so near to another that no air can pass between them. |
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| WEB | One is so near to another, that no air can come between them. |
| ASV | One is so near to another, That no air can come between them. |
| YLT | One unto another they draw nigh, And air doth not enter between them. |
| DARBY | One is so near to another that no air can come between them; |
| BBE | One is so near to the other that no air may come between them. |
| Webster | One is so near to another, that no air can come between them. |
What does Job 41:16 mean?
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 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.
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Job 41:16 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- Job 41:15
His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
- Job 41:16
One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
- Job 41:17
They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
Job 41:16 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | El uno se junta con el otro, que viento no entra entre ellos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Son cœur est dur comme une pierre, dur comme la meule inférieure. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Vor seinem Erheben fürchten sich Starke, vor Verzagtheit geraten sie außer sich. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Cum sublatus fuerit, timebunt angeli, et territi purgabuntur. |