The description of the “behemoth” in the preceding chapter and the “leviathan” here suggests a few moral reflections.
I. The prodigality of created might. With what amazing force are these creatures endowed! How huge their proportions! How exuberant their vital energy!
II. The restraining power of the Divine government. What keeps those creatures in cheek? They are under the spell of the Almighty. To all creatures the Creator has set a boundary beyond which they cannot pass.
III. The absurdity of man priding himself in his strength. “Let not the mighty man glory in his might,” etc.
IV. The probability of mental giants in the universe. May there not be in the spiritual domain as great a difference in the power of its tenants as there is in the physical?
V. The Divine mode of solving man’s moral difficulties. Great were the difficulties of Job in relation to God’s government. God does not reason with Job, but shows Himself to him, and this settles all dispute, and will ever do so.
VI. God’s work in nature should be studied, in order to impress us with his majesty. We must remember the profoundly religions and serious character of the Eastern patriarch. (Homilist.)
