Job 41:7
Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?
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 "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" {n}? 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.
{n} Vid. Schultens in loc.