Translations
F.O.G.MPrimary
F.O.G MessageThey cling to one another, interlocked so tightly they cannot be separated.
F.O.GSecondary
The F.O.GEach is bonded fast to its neighbour — locked together, impossible to prise apart.
KJV
King James VersionThey are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
BSB
Berean Standard BibleThey are joined to one another; they clasp and cannot be separated.
Footnotes
*Yedubbaqu* (יְדֻבָּקוּ) uses the root *dabaq* — to cling, cleave, or stick — the same word used in Ruth 1:14 when Ruth cleaves to Naomi, and in Genesis 2:24 when a man cleaves to his wife. It is ordinarily covenant language — the language of loyalty and inseparable union. Here it describes the invincible unity of Leviathan's scales: the very word for covenantal intimacy is pressed into service to describe the impenetrable armour of chaos. FOG uses 'bonded' to capture the adhesive force; FOG Message uses 'cling' to preserve the root's resonance.