Chapter Summary

God's challenge to Job concluded.

Discussion Questions for Job, Chapter 41

1. How is the Leviathan described in this chapter? Why is it described to Job?
2. What role does the Leviathan play in understanding Jobs suffering? Why is it important?
3. What does the Leviathan teach you about God’s wisdom and sovereignty?
4. Job 41:5 - “Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on a leash for your girls?” (ESV) What does this teach you about the character of the Leviathan?
5. Job 41:8 - “Lay your hands on him; remember the battle—you will not do it again!” (ESV) What does the “battle” represent? Why are they do remember the Leviathan when in it?
6. Job 41:9 - “Behold, the hope of a man is false; he is laid low even at the sight of him.” What would make the hope of a man false? How does the hope of man compare to having hope in God?
7. What is one word you would use to describe the Leviathan? Why?
8. What does it mean does it mean for the Leviathan to “see everything that is high” and to be “king over all the sons of pride.” (Job 41:34, ESV)
9. How does Job 41 challenge your view of human power?
10. What does the Leviathan symbolize? What is God teaching about Himself through it?

Key Words/Phrase

Challenge, v. 1.

Characters

God, Job.

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