The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.
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Gill's Exposition
His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone. Which must be understood not of the substance but of the qualities of it, being bold, courageous, undaunted, and…
Barnes' Notes
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…
Adam Clarke
The flakes of his flesh - His muscles are strongly and firmly compacted.
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…
Cambridge Bible
The verse reads,
The flakes of his flesh cleave fast together;
It is firm upon him, it is not moved.
The "flakes" of his flesh are the parts beneath the neck and belly, which in most animals are…