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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
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;…
Methodist theologian, 1762–1832
Adam Clarke
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.
God, having in the foregoing verses shown Job how unable he was to deal with the leviathan, here sets forth his own power in that massy mighty creature. Here is,
I. God's sovereign dominion and…
These verses refer to the close coherence of the scales to one another.