In rapid fire succession, He first pummels Job with 14 rhetorical questions. God devotes a lengthy section (34 verses in English) to this animal. Several translations render the boldfaced words “great sea-monsters,” 1 while the Young’s Literal Translation has “great monsters,” the English Standard Version has “great sea creatures,” 2 and the New International Version has “great creatures of the sea.” So we should not be surprised when we come to the ancient book of Job and read of an incredible sea creature-Leviathan ( liv-yah-thahn)-that truly merits the labels “great” and “monster.” 3Įxamine the following outline that clarifies the structure of the chapter: And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” So the evening and the morning were the fifth day (Genesis 1:20-23). Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.” So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. Concerning the fifth day of Creation, Moses informs us: God next directs Job’s attention to the apex of the animal kingdom.
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