John Gill's Exposition on Job 41:7

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?] This seems not so well to agree with the whale; whose skin, and the several parts of his body, are to be pierced with harpoons and lances, such as fishermen use in taking whales; and their flesh to be cut in pieces with their knives: but better with the crocodile, whose skin is so hard, and so closely set with scales, that it is impenetrable; (see Gill on “<262904>Ezekiel 29:4”). Or if the words are rendered, as by some, “wilt thou fill ships with his skin? and the fishermen’s boat with his head” f1524? it makes also against the whale; for this is done continually, ships of different nations are loaded every year with its skin, flesh, and the bones of its head.

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