PLESIOSAUR IN THE BIBLE?

 LEVIATHAN

SEA CREATURE IN THE BIBLE

"People who know how to curse days should curse that day. 

They should wake up Leviathan, the monster from the sea, to attack it."

Job 3:8  EASY  (Easy English Bible)

"In that day the Lord with his hard and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea."

Isaiah 27:1  ESV  (English Standard Version)

“Job, can you pull Leviathan out of the sea with a fishhook?  

Can you tie down its tongue with a rope? 

Can you put a rope through its nose?  

Can you stick a hook through its jaw?  

Will it keep begging you for mercy? 

Will it speak gently to you?  

Will it make an agreement with you? 

Can you make it your slave for life? 

Can you make a pet out of it like a bird?

Can you put it on a leash for the young women in your house?  

Will traders offer you something for it?

Will they divide it up among the merchants? 

Can you fill its body with harpoons?

Can you throw fishing spears into its head? 

If you touch it, it will fight you. Then you will remember never to touch it again! 

No one can possibly control Leviathan.

Just looking at it will terrify you. 

No one dares to wake it up.    

So who can possibly stand up to me?

Who has a claim against me that I must pay? Everything on earth belongs to me.

“Now I will speak about the Leviathan’s legs.  I will talk about its strength and its graceful body. 

Who can strip off its outer coat?

Who would try to pierce its double coat of armor? 

Who dares to open its jaws?

Its mouth is filled with terrifying teeth. 

Its back has rows of shields that are close together. 

Each one is so close to the next one that not even air can pass between them. 

They are joined tightly to one another.

They stick together and can’t be forced apart.

Job 41:1-17  NIRV (New International Readers Version)

"Its sneezes flash forth light,
And its eyes are like the eyelids of the morning. 
Out of its mouth go burning torches;
Sparks of fire leap forth. 
Out of its nostrils smoke goes forth
As from a boiling pot and burning reeds. 
Its breath kindles coals,
And a flame goes forth from its mouth. 
In its neck lodges strength,
And dismay leaps before it. 
The folds of its flesh cling together,
Hardened upon it and is not shaken. 
Its heart is as hard as a stone,
Even as hard as a lower millstone. 
When it raises itself up, the mighty fear,
Because of the crashing they are bewildered. 
The sword that reaches it cannot avail,
Nor the spear, the dart, or the javelin. 
It regards iron as straw,
Bronze as rotten wood. 
The arrow cannot make it flee;
Slingstones are turned into stubble for it. 
Clubs are regarded as stubble;
It laughs at the rattling of the javelin. 
Its underparts are like sharp potsherds;
It spreads out like a threshing sledge on the mire. 
It makes the depths boil like a pot;
It makes the sea like a jar of ointment. 
Behind it, it makes a wake to shine;
One would think the deep to be gray-haired. 
There is nothing upon the dust like it,
One made without terror. 
It looks on everything that is high;
It is king over all the sons of pride.”

Job 41:18-34  LSV  (Legacy Standard Version)

"You split open the sea by your strength;
You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters. 
You crushed the heads of Leviathan;
you gave him as food to the desert dwelling creatures."

Psalm 74:13-14  LEB  (Lexham English Bible)