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can tell my problems to.
In chapter 3 there is a record of it. He just blurted out, “Oh, cursed be the
day that I was born, and my conception. Whoever has mentioned my
birthday ought to be shot. And when the doctor told my mother it was a
boy he should have been killed. And my mother should have died, and I
should have died, I hate my birthday!” And then he said, “And who can
fight Leviathan?” In chapter 3 he mentions Leviathan. And those three
friends heard what came out of his mouth. What came out of his mouth
was intended to express what was in his heart, but it never did. What was
in his heart was so deep he could not bring it up
They thought he was cursing his birthday. He was cursing the futility of
this life. Being “born of woman”, the first and natural birth. This
existence has no answers. That is what was way, down, deep. What his
words could not express.
And when he was talking about Leviathan he was not saying he was
strong enough to wrestle a crocodile. Six times in the Bible Satan is called
Leviathan. That was the real problem in his heart. Who was strong enough
to fight the forces of evil? It cannot be done on the level of earth; it is not
in man’s power or nature.
And now God comes to the end, and He says to Job: “Remember way
back before all the debates? Remember your friends who never answered
your questions? You had two of them. “What is the answer to human
nature and what is the answer to Satan?” He says, Job, are you able to rise
up and handle the pride of man? Can you handle my enemy Satan?

“Behemoth”, I think that’s a picture of the natural man, our sinful human
nature. What the New Testament calls “The old man”. Corrupt and
unfixable human nature. It’s just a picture of the flesh. And “Old
Leviathan” is really a picture of Satan. I think what God is doing here at
the end is returning to deal with the very primal and desperate cravings of
Job’s heart. Who can handle me? Who can handle Satan? And God says,
“Job, I can handle the creation; I can handle the animate; I can handle the
inanimate; I can handle Behemoth, and Leviathan too.” And then Job saw
the Lord, and he says, finally I have found the answers. The answer to the
problem of life is seeing God Himself and seeing Him alone.

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