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== Summary ==

*Dinosaur-like creatures, now apparently extinct. They belong to God, as does everything else.

==Details and/or Comments==

*Behemoth and Leviathan. The verses give actual descriptions of these creatures, communicating it with metaphors, similes and other figures of speech.

:We ''can'' understand what is meant in these descriptions. When behemoth's tail is compared to a cedar, it conveys ideas such as strong and powerful... quite the opposite of a "twig"!

:In later centuries, after leviathan had become extinct, its description "grew" to mythical proportions. But these ''later'' exaggerations do not nullify the ''earlier'' description that was given while it was still a ''living'' creature that Job could personally observe - from a distance, of course! (Psalm 74:14 refers to the mythical description, with leviathan being a sea monster with ''multiple'' heads - unlike the Job account, 41:7.)

*Today, these two animals appear to be [[Extinct Animals|extinct]].

==Scripture==

Job 40:15 to 41:34

Note: Job 41:11 – God owns ''everything''.

'''Behemoth'''
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|Job 40:15 "See now, behemoth, which I made as well as you. He eats grass as an ox.

Job 40:16 Look now, his strength is in his thighs. His force is in the muscles of his belly.

Job 40:17 He moves his tail like a cedar. The sinews of his thighs are knit together.

Job 40:18 His bones are like tubes of brass. His limbs are like bars of iron.

Job 40:19 He is the chief of the ways of God. He who made him gives him his sword.

Job 40:20 Surely the mountains produce food for him, where all the animals of the field play.

Job 40:21 He lies under the lotus trees, in the covert of the reed, and the marsh.

Job 40:22 The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook surround him.

Job 40:23 Behold, if a river overflows, he doesn't tremble. He is confident, though the Jordan swells even to his mouth.

Job 40:24 Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through his nose with a snare?
|A description of behemoth.
#God says he ''made'' behemoth, just like he made Job. He doesn't claim this creature is a mythical invention or a fictitious story!
#God claims that behemoth "is the chief of the ways of God" (v. 19).
#And concerning Job (and other humans), "Shall any take him when he is on the watch, or pierce through his nose with a snare?" (v. 24).

*[[Behemoth]]

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'''Leviathan'''
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|Job 41:1 "Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook, or press down his tongue with a cord?

Job 41:2 Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

Job 41:3 Will he make many petitions to you, or will he speak soft words to you?

Job 41:4 Will he make a covenant with you, that you should take him for a servant forever?

Job 41:5 Will you play with him as with a bird? Or will you bind him for your girls?

Job 41:6 Will traders barter for him? Will they part him among the merchants?

Job 41:7 Can you fill his skin with barbed irons, or his head with fish spears?

Job 41:8 Lay your hand on him. Remember the battle, and do so no more.

Job 41:9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won't one be cast down even at the sight of him?
|A description of leviathan. This first part focuses on the impossibility of a human to subdue it.

*[[Leviathan]]
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|Job 41:10 None is so fierce that he dare stir him up. Who then is he who can stand before me?

Job 41:11 Who has first given to me, that I should repay him? Everything under the heavens is mine.
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In contrast, to the inability of humans, ''God is greater''. The conclusion: If we ''dare not'' confront leviathan, how much less dare we confront God!

*God owes us ''nothing''. Rather, he owns ''everything'', and is debtor to none.
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Job 41:12 "I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.

Job 41:13 Who can strip off his outer garment? Who shall come within his jaws?

Job 41:14 Who can open the doors of his face? Around his teeth is terror.

Job 41:15 Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.

Job 41:16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

Job 41:17 They are joined one to another. They stick together, so that they can't be pulled apart.

Job 41:18 His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

Job 41:19 Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap forth.

Job 41:20 Out of his nostrils a smoke goes, as of a boiling pot over a fire of reeds.

Job 41:21 His breath kindles coals. A flame goes forth from his mouth.

Job 41:22 There is strength in his neck. Terror dances before him.

Job 41:23 The flakes of his flesh are joined together. They are firm on him. They can't be moved.

Job 41:24 His heart is as firm as a stone, yes, firm as the lower millstone.

Job 41:25 When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing.

Job 41:26 If one attacks him with the sword, it can't prevail; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.

Job 41:27 He counts iron as straw; and brass as rotten wood.

Job 41:28 The arrow can't make him flee. Sling stones are like chaff to him.

Job 41:29 Clubs are counted as stubble. He laughs at the rushing of the javelin.

Job 41:30 His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.

Job 41:31 He makes the deep to boil like a pot. He makes the sea like a pot of ointment.

Job 41:32 He makes a path shine after him. One would think the deep had white hair.

Job 41:33 On earth there is not his equal, that is made without fear.

Job 41:34 He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride."
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Further description of leviathan's greatness: "On earth there is not his equal" - v. 33.

*From the standpoint of being a physical creature, Job is ''nothing'', in comparison.
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