07.09.2014 Old Testament: Job 40.16–18

To read the Bible in a year, read Job 40–42 on July 9, In the year of our Lord 2014

By Don Ruhl

Job rebuked and challenged God, contending with Him and accusing Him of not doing the right thing in Job’s life. However, God responded that Job just had to look at behemoth—a dinosaur or dinosaur-like creature, something far more powerful than Job—to see that he was nothing in comparison to one of God’s massive creatures, hence nothing in the sight of the Creator of behemoth,

“See now, his strength is in his hips,
And his power is in his stomach muscles.
He moves his tail like a cedar;
The sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.
His bones are like beams of bronze,
His ribs like bars of iron.”
(Job 40.16–18) 

Could Job have challenged behemoth to a contest? Behemoth would have smashed Job. Why then did Job think that he could contend with behemoth’s Maker?

What have you said about God? Do you think you can win an argument with Him? Do you think you can run your life better than He does?