To the editor:

This is the second letter concerning the true identity of the Leviathan mentioned in scripture. The biblical view of scripture teaches each person to study to show themselves approved and to search all things, that is, if they have received the Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of Elohim (1st Corinthians 2:10).

In Job chapter 3, we see that Job is cursing the day of his birth. Why? The scriptures teach that a good name is more important than oil and the day of death than the day of one’s birth (Ecclesiastes 7:1, 7:8, 22:1) and the end is better than the beginning. Also, a good name is to be chosen before great riches, better is Yahweh’s favor than silver or gold. Job is lamenting the day of his birth because Yahweh has allowed Satan to bring him much to mourn about. But instead of cursing Yahweh, Job blesses him.

In Job 3:8 in the original King James version, it states: “Let them curse it who curses this day, who are ready to raise up their mourning (Leviathan in most Bibles). “Mourning” is translated from the Hebrew word Leviathan! Job is so miserable that he is wishing that he had never been born.

A companion Bible also begins to present the verses of Job, beginning with 3:3 through chapter 42. A New Metrical Version renders Job 3:8 thusly: “Let those engaged in banning days curse this; those ready to rouse (stir up) Leviathan (mourning).”

The word curse appears twice in the KJV verse, but is translated from two separate Hebrew words. The first is naqab which is defined as: To puncture, literally (to perforate, with more or less violence) or figuratively (to specify, designate, libel). It is variously translated as: appoint, blaspheme, bore, curse, express with holes, name, pierce, strike through.

The second Hebrew word is arar, which is defined as to execrate. It is generally translated as bitterly curse. The New Metrical Version would be better translated as: “Let those engaged in naming days curse this; Those ready to rouse (stir up) Leviathan.”

They are engaged in cursing the days by naming them. The seven days of the week have all been given names of pagan idols, pagan gods by men. The only day that Yahweh ever named was the seventh day (Sabbath). All the rest were numbered one through six.

Man honors his false gods by naming days and months after them because we follow false doctrine. Yahweh commanded Israel to make no mention of the name of other gods, “neither let it be heard out of thy mouth” (Exodus 23:13).

The Layman’s Bible Encyclopedia defines the Leviathan as follows: A sea monster in Semitic mythology, representing the forces of chaos over which Elohim triumphed in bringing order to the creation.

In several Old Testament passages, this mythological language is used as a literary device to describe the great power of Elohim. Who is this monster called Leviathan? Read the next letter in the Daily Journal to find the answer.

Billy Wilson

Rockingham