Some other memorable verses from Job 41:1-11: "Can you draw out Leviathan with a hook, Or snare his tongue with a line which you lower? Can you put a reed through his nose, Or pierce his jaw with a hook? Will he make many supplications to you? Will he speak softly to you? Will he make a covenant with you? Will you take him as a servant forever? Will you play with him as with a bird, Or will you leash him for your maidens? Will your companions make a banquet of him? Will they apportion him among the merchants? Can you fill his skin with harpoons, Or his head with fishing spears? Lay your hand on him; Remember the battle-- Never do it again! Indeed, any hope of overcoming him is false; Shall one not be overwhelmed at the sight of him? No one is so fierce that he would dare stir him up. Who then is able to stand against Me? Who has preceded Me, that I should pay him? Everything under heaven is Mine."
Matthew Henry's Bible Commentary in the concise version explains about the Leviathan: "The description of the Leviathan, is yet further to convince Job of his own weakness, and of God's almighty power. Whether this Leviathan be a whale or a crocodile, is disputed. The Lord, having showed Job how unable he was to deal with the Leviathan, sets forth his own power in that mighty creature. If such language describes the terrible force of Leviathan, what words can express the power of God's wrath? Under a humbling sense of our own vileness, let us revere the Divine Majesty; take and fill our allotted place, cease from our own wisdom, and give all glory to our gracious God and Savior. Remembering from whom every good gift cometh, and for what end it was given, let us walk humbly with the Lord."
Who would think that you could learn Scripture on a Godzilla forum! Job 41:25-34 reads as follows: "When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid; Because of his crashings they are beside themselves. Though the sword reaches him, it cannot avail; Nor does spear, dart, or javelin. He regards iron as straw, And bronze as rotten wood. The arrow cannot make him flee; Slingstones become like stubble to him. Darts are regarded as straw; He laughs at the threat of javelins. His undersides are like sharp potsherds; He spreads pointed marks in the mire. He makes the deep boil like a pot; He makes the sea like a pot of ointment. He leaves a shining wake behind him; One would think the deep had white hair. On earth there is nothing like him, Which is made without fear. He beholds every high thing; He is king over all the children of pride."
I do lament the loss of pathos in the newer Godzilla movies concerning the loss of life and physical destruction wreaked on the victims of Godzilla's wrath. The 1954 movie showed the choir of Japanese children singing a hymn for the sorrows of the dead and dying. The movie concluded with the selfless sacrifice of Serizawa who took the secret of the Oxygen Destroyer to his death. The movie concludes with the ending words, "But the world could live again." I sense that the newer movies reflect a more worldly, less spiritual reflection on mankind's fall from grace and its depravity that require salvation from a greater Being. Let's hope that future Godzilla movies can make us mourn and pray for the suffering of loved ones, even if they are fictional on the silver screen.
