Leviathan (the crocodile, we understand to be meant) is the second creature to be spoken of in these closing words of God to Job (Chapter 41). Could this reptile be subdued, made useful to man? Will Job play with one as a bird, and bind it for his maidens? Its hide is so thick that darts and spears will not pierce it, and even the modern rifle has no power to go through it. It might well terrify the men of Job's early day.
Well, these two unconquerable and dangerous creatures are spoken of in God's discourse to Job, to show him how puny his strength really was against the things of nature which God had made, and to which He gave life.
How small man is, and how little his power, how great, too his ignorance, how little his wisdom, when God is brought into the scene.
All that God had spoken to Job about were earthly things, or things in which the earth had a part. What of the deeper things unseen and eternal so often scorned by man?
How dependent we are, and everyone is, upon God for His favor! And what of the priceless gift of a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ? None but God could have planned so great a Gift to poor helpless man.