Job 41:23 - Exposition

The flakes of his flesh are joined together . Even the softer muscles, and parts which in most animals are yielding and flabby, in the crocodile are bound up, and, as it were, soldered together (comp. Job 41:17 ). They are firm in themselves; rather, they are firm upon him; literally, fused upon him , like detached pieces of metal, which are melted one into another. They cannot be moved. His whole body is so firmly compacted together that it is all one piece; the separate parts cannot be moved separately. One result is that the crocodile has great difficulty in turning.