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NASB | Job 40:15 ¶ "Behold now, Behemoth, which I made as well as you; He eats grass like an ox. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Job 40:15 ¶ "Behold now, Behemoth, which I created as well as you; He eats grass like an ox. |
Subject: Explain dinosaurs |
Bible Note: Hi Steve, I agree with you. I don't think the behemoth is a hippo or an elephant either. Not as we know it today anyway. Animals would have lived much longer pre-Flood just like humans did. And scientifically it has been found that crockodiles (or was it alligators) never stop growing from the time they're born until they die. And their average growth rate would put them at about 100 feet long if they lived to be 500-600 years old. I don't remember where I read about that. So "monsters" would seem fairly probable Pre-Flood and since God didn't say he'd destroy everything in the sea, then some of the large sea creatures surely would have survived the great Flood. On top of that, if Noah had any of the "little ones" in the ark, they may have lived for a few hundred years AFTER the Flood just like men did. So certain land creatures could have become quite large too. And something that comes to mind concerning Job is that it would make no sense for God to use a behemoth or leviathan to explain to Job about HIS power and strength if He was simply talking about something that was not fearsome, nor much bigger than man, nor something "pre-Flood" that Job could not truly comprehend. And Job had to have lived AFTER the Flood because in verse 1 it says "a man in the land of Uz". Uz is from the Hebrew "Uwts" meaning Uts, a son of Abram, also a Seirite, and the regions settled by them. So if God wanted to impress Job with His own power and might, then He surely would have used something that Job recognized. And Job apparently knew what a behemoth and a leviathan (fire-breathing leviathan) were. There is one type of insect that "breathes" fire even today. It has to do with pouches that contain certain chemicals, which when combined in the throat forms fire which shoots out it's mouth. (Sorry, a poor description.) It uses this for protection. Again, I don't remember the name of the "bug". But at least even in today's world it isn't impossible to believe or understand that an animal or sea creature could have "breathed fire". |