He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together.
The verse belongs to God's account of the creatures and works of creation in Job 38-40. That account establishes that God created the world and living things and that human beings had no part in that creation. It stands as a divinely inspired description of nature presenting mysteries beyond human understanding and showing that human wisdom is limited.
It pictures behemoth as a huge devouring beast with jaws and teeth. The behemoth figures the Romanist power facing Luther between Wittenberg and Worms, and its jaws are the threat to burn him alive and reduce his body to ashes as was done to John Huss. That threat is a fire kindled all the way from Worms to Wittenberg whose flames rise to heaven. Entering the jaws of this behemoth and breaking his teeth means going through that fire in the name of the Lord and standing before its rulers confessing Jesus Christ, so that bold witness breaks its destroying power.
The verse belongs to God's account of the creatures and works of creation in Job 38-40. That account establishes that God created the world and living things and that human beings had no part in that creation. It stands as a divinely inspired description of nature presenting mysteries beyond human understanding and showing that human wisdom is limited.
It pictures behemoth as a huge devouring beast with jaws and teeth. The behemoth figures the Romanist power facing Luther between Wittenberg and Worms, and its jaws are the threat to burn him alive and reduce his body to ashes as was done to John Huss. That threat is a fire kindled all the way from Worms to Wittenberg whose flames rise to heaven. Entering the jaws of this behemoth and breaking his teeth means going through that fire in the name of the Lord and standing before its rulers confessing Jesus Christ, so that bold witness breaks its destroying power.