Hi GAMErs,
Now onto today’s passage. Today’s passage is Job 41:1-34. Let’s go!
Job 41:10 (NIV)
10 No one is fierce enough to rouse him. Who then is able to stand against me?
On verses 1-34: For one whole chapter, God talks about the leviathan. What is the leviathan and why is God talking about it?
The leviathan is described as a powerful marine animal that is violent, not easily captured or tamed, armed with fearsome teeth (v14), and who is impervious to attacks with various premodern combat weapons (v26). In the past scholars surmised that perhaps the leviathan was a sea monster, a whale, or a marine dinosaur. Today, many scholars believe that the leviathan is a giant crocodile, since “the crocodile fits God’s description of the leviathan’s back (v13, 15-17, 23), teeth (v14), chest and undersides (v24, 30) and its churning of the waters (v31-32)” (The Bible Knowledge Commentary). If the leviathan is a giant crocodile, then the references to it being fire-breathing (v19-21) might be an exaggeration for effect.