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Job 41:17 — King James Version← Study notes

They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.


Job 41:17Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 41:175 words
HebrewMeaning
מִ֭/שֵּׂת/וֹmiśētwō
from uprising itspronH7613
dignity · excellency · highness · raise up self ···
יָג֣וּרוּyāgwrw
they are afraidverbH1481
assemble · be afraid · dwell · fear ···
אֵלִ֑יםʾēliym
mighty onesnounH410
goodly · great · idol · might ···
מִ֝/שְּׁבָרִ֗יםmišəbāriym
from crashingpronH7667
breach · breaking · broken(-footed · -handed) ···
יִתְחַטָּֽאוּyitəḥaṭāʾw
they are bewilderedverbH2398
cleanse · commit · by fault · harm he hath done ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

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…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 33 §54
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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