Job 41:1,2,6,8,15-17 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook?
or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? Canst thou put an hook into
his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn? Shall the companions make a
banquet of him? shall they part him among the merchants? Lay thine hand upon
him, remember the battle, do no more His scales are his pride, shut up together
as with a close seal. One is so near to another, that no air can come between
them. They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be
sundered. Here in our verses is the second of the great dinosaurs mentioned
in the book of Job: the leviathan. The leviathan was a huge swimming dinosaur,
probably a plesiosaurus. He had a long, serpent-like neck with great teeth and
protective scales. God told Job to go ahead and catch leviathan with a hook
like a fish. But watch out. Once you get ahold of him, you had better hang on
for dear life! Leviathan was powerful and God reminded Job that He had made
leviathan. And God made Job. And God made you too!
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