Job 41:23
A path shall shine after him, he shall esteem the deep as growing old.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
In Context
22He shall make the deep sea to boil like a pot, and shall make it as when ointments boil.
24There is no power upon earth that can be compared with him who was made to fear no one.
Cross References
Job 40:17The shades cover his shadow, the willows of the brook shall compass him about.
Revelation 9:9And they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was as the noise of chariots and many horses running to battle.
Matthew Henry on Job 41:12-34
11 Who hath prevented me, that I should repay him? whatsoever is under the whole heaven is mine. 12 I will not conceal his parts, nor his power, nor his comely proportion. 13 Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle? 14 Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about. 15 His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal. 16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them. 17 They are joined one to another, they stick… Read the whole commentary →