“They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.”
God continues 'They are joined one to another; they stick together and cannot be parted.' This verse reiterates the close connection of the scales, describing them as joined, stuck, and inseparable. The threefold description (joined, stick together, cannot be parted) emphasizes the permanence and unity of the creature's defense. The scales are not merely adjacent but fundamentally connected. The verse conveys a sense of absolute unity and strength in the creature's structure.
Church Fathers on Job 41:17
They will adhere one to another, and holding each other they will not be separated. For they who might be corrected, if divided, persevere, when united, in the obstinacy of their iniquities: and are day by day the more easily separable from the knowledge of righteousness, the more they are not mutually separated from each other by any reproach. For as it is wont to be injurious if unity be wanting to the good, so is it fatal if it be not wanting to the wicked. For unity…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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