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the monster so big God personally bragged about making it in the Book of Job
means A sea monster of immense size, or by extension anything enormous and overwhelmingly powerful — a vast organization, ship, or system.
from From the Hebrew livyathan, a monstrous sea creature named in the Bible — most memorably in the Book of Job, where God spends a whole speech marveling at its scales, its fire-breath, and the way it churns the deep. The Hebrew root is possibly tied to a verb for twisting or coiling, fitting a serpentine beast. It rolled into Latin and Greek through the scriptures, then into English, where Thomas Hobbes famously borrowed it as the title of his 1651 book — using the great beast as a metaphor for the all-powerful state.
- biblical flex
- God spends a whole chapter describing it to silence Job
- hobbes hijack
- named a 1651 book justifying absolute state power
- sea or croc
- scholars argue it's a whale, crocodile, or pure myth
- fire breath
- scripture says flames stream from its mouth
- unhookable
- Job mocks the idea of catching it with a fishhook
leviathan oil platform — israeli natural gas field in mediterranean discovered 2010, produces ~40% of israel's gas
leviathan by thomas hobbes — political philosophy treatise published 1651, foundational text on social contract theory