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Job 41:1-34 (JDV)

Job 41:1 Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook or tie his tongue down with a rope?
Job 41:2 Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
Job 41:3 Will he beg you for mercy or speak softly to you?
Job 41:4 Will he make a covenant with you so that you can take him as a slave forever?
Job 41:5 Can you play with him like a bird or put him on a leash for your girls?
Job 41:6 Will traders bargain for him or divide him among the merchants?
Job 41:7 Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?
Job 41:8 Lay a hand on him. You will remember the battle and never repeat it!
Job 41:9 Any hope of capturing him proves false. Does a person not collapse at the very sight of him?
Job 41:10 No one is ferocious enough to rouse Leviathan; who then can stand against me?
Job 41:11 Who confronted me, that I should repay him? Everything under the sky belongs to me.
Job 41:12 I cannot be silent about his limbs, his power, and his graceful proportions.
Job 41:13 Who can strip off his outer covering? Who can penetrate his double layer of armor?
Job 41:14 Who can open his jaws, surrounded by those terrifying teeth?
Job 41:15 His pride is in his rows of scales, closely sealed together.
Job 41:16 One scale is so close to another that no air can pass between them.
Job 41:17 They are joined to one another, so closely connected they cannot be separated.
Job 41:18 His snorting flashes with light, while his eyes are like the rays of dawn.
Job 41:19 Flaming torches shoot from his mouth; fiery sparks fly out!
Job 41:20 Smoke billows from his nostrils as from a boiling pot or burning reeds.
Job 41:21 His throat sets coals ablaze, and flames pour out of his mouth.
Job 41:22 Strength resides in his neck, and dismay dances before him.
Job 41:23 The folds of his flesh are joined together, solid as metal and immovable.
Job 41:24 His heart is as hard as a rock, as hard as a lower millstone!
Job 41:25 When Leviathan rises, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw because of his thrashing.
Job 41:26 The sword that reaches him will have no effect, nor will a spear, dart, or arrow.
Job 41:27 He regards iron as straw, and bronze as rotten wood.
Job 41:28 No arrow can make him flee; slingstones become like stubble to him.
Job 41:29 A club is regarded as stubble, and he laughs at the sound of a javelin.
Job 41:30 His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading the mud like a threshing sledge.
Job 41:31 He makes the depths seethe like a cauldron; he makes the sea like an ointment jar.
Job 41:32 He leaves a shining wake behind him; one would think the deep had gray hair!
Job 41:33 He has no equal on the land– a creature devoid of fear!
Job 41:34 He surveys everything that is haughty; he is king over all the proud beasts.

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The LORD first challenges Job, and Job quickly repents and submits. While Job was right to defend himself, he really did not understand God enough to explain what was happening to him. God describes two powerful creatures, showing that if humans cannot explain them, they certainly cannot come close to understanding their creator.

Our common approach to science quickly eliminates the wonder of what is. The moment anyone dares to suggest ignorance of the basic issues of life, he is bombarded with answers, in spite of the fact that most of those answers are best guesses. Sadly, most of the best guesses come from a scientific community which refuses to entertain the suggestion of a creator. All Job needed to face the reality of God’s existence was another look at what is.

LORD, forgive us for refusing to see you in what you have made.