Job 26:12-13 also refers to God’s piercing defeat of a fleeing serpent associated with the sea.ī.Isaiah 51:9 and Psalm 89-8-10 also speak of a serpent associated with the sea that God defeated as a demonstration of His great strength, and identifies this serpent with the name Rahab, meaning proud one.Isaiah 27:1 speaks of the future defeat of Leviathan, also associating it with a twisted serpent that lives in the sea.Psalm 104:26 also refers to Leviathan as a sea creature. ![]() Psalm 74:12-14 refers to Leviathan as a sea serpent, and that God broke the head of the Leviathan long ago, perhaps at the creation.The name Leviathan means “ twisting one” and is also used in other interesting places in Scripture. Others consider that in this context, Leviathan is nothing more than a mighty crocodile. Some believe that Leviathan describes some ancient dragon-like dinosaur that either survived to Job’s day, or survived in the collective memory of mankind, so that God could refer to it as an example. ![]() Yet in the context of Job 41, God does not seem to consider Leviathan to be mythical at all. Usually Leviathan is considered to be a mythical sea-monster or dragon that terrorized sailors and fishermen. This creature was first mentioned in Job 3:8 Job in that context considered how sailors and fishermen would curse the threatening Leviathan, and with the same passion he cursed the day of his birth. Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook: After the discussion of Behemoth in Job 40:15-24, now God called Job to consider another fearful monster, Leviathan. ![]() Will they apportion him among the merchants?Ī. Will your companions make a banquet of him? Or snare his tongue with a line which you lower? (1-7) Mankind is helpless against Leviathan.
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