Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
This warning to lay a hand on the great sea creature and remember the battle belongs to the divine questions about the mysteries of God in nature that even persons of the greatest intellect and the most profound scholarship cannot understand or answer. Those questions were not asked in order to be answered, but to call attention to the deep mysteries of God and to teach that human wisdom is limited and that in the surroundings of daily life there are many things beyond the comprehension of finite beings. Inability to comprehend the infinite power that God reveals in such mysteries is no ground for refusing to believe in God. God is to be acknowledged as much from what He does not reveal of Himself as from what is open to limited comprehension, and both in divine revelation and in nature He has given mysteries to command faith, so that with ever searching and ever inquiring and ever learning there still remains an infinity beyond.
This warning to lay a hand on the great sea creature and remember the battle belongs to the divine questions about the mysteries of God in nature that even persons of the greatest intellect and the most profound scholarship cannot understand or answer. Those questions were not asked in order to be answered, but to call attention to the deep mysteries of God and to teach that human wisdom is limited and that in the surroundings of daily life there are many things beyond the comprehension of finite beings. Inability to comprehend the infinite power that God reveals in such mysteries is no ground for refusing to believe in God. God is to be acknowledged as much from what He does not reveal of Himself as from what is open to limited comprehension, and both in divine revelation and in nature He has given mysteries to command faith, so that with ever searching and ever inquiring and ever learning there still remains an infinity beyond.