John Gill Commentary Job 41:17

"They are joined one to another; They stick together, so that they cannot be sundered." — Job 41:17 (ASV)

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.