* "The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon. He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood. The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble. Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear. " (Job 41:26-27)

No weapons of Job's era have any effect against Leviathan.

* "He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment. 32 He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary." (Job 41:31-32)

Here we see that Leviathan is amphibious, as is verified in Isaiah 27:1 and Psalms 104:26. When swimming, the water around Leviathan seems to boil like a pot, and behind him the water glows as though the water was on fire.

The previous descriptions of Leviathan show that it is unlike any other creature known to have existed on Earth. Amazingly, the most common explanation from the pulpit for what Leviathan was, is the crocodile. Only one creature has ever been portrayed in history that very closely resembles Leviathan, which is found in the Japanese culture and called Gojira; commonly known as Godzilla.

Dragons in the Bible

The concept of flying, fire-breathing reptiles is, to most, only the stuff of fairy tales. There is however, so much cross-culture evidence from civilizations having no known interaction that it defies the laws of chance that all are mythical accounts. There are also several historical accounts relating eyewitness testimony of dragon encounters. Dragons have appeared in such widely separated cultures as China, Europe, Iceland, Hawaii, and Vietnam. St. George, the most famous of the dragon slayers, earned his place in dragon lore as a soldier in the Roman army by ridding the city of Silene in Libya of a dragon that had been terrorizing the town, devouring its sheep, as well as its children. England is rife with historical references with actual differences in dragon types reported in several areas.

The references to dragons in the Bible have been dismissed as everything from overactive imaginations, to hippos, to metaphor. Satan is referred to as a dragon, but the several Old Testament references to dragons are anything but metaphor. Simple observation reveals that they are described in context with well known living creatures. There are several references to dragons in the Bible: Deuteronomy 32:23, Nehemiah 2:13, Job 30:29, Psalms 44:19, 74:13, 91:3, 148:7, Isaiah 13:22, 27:1, 34:13, 35:7, 43:20, Jeremiah 9:11, 10:22, 4:6, 49:33, 51:34, 51:37, Micah 1:8, and Malachi 1:3.

Behold Now Behemoth

The description of Behemoth can be found in Job 40:15-24. Behemoth is described as a mountain grazing animal with incredible strength, a tail as large as a cedar tree, bones like tubes of brass or rods of iron, and an incredible thirst. As with Leviathan, the church has a strange explanation of Behemoth; claiming it is either a hippo or an elephant.