Leviathan is a model to Job. Does Job have this same resilience of spirit? Every believer should have. Not in himself, but because he had made the Lord his strength. He has deep resources (Psalm 1:3), which enable him to face troubles with equanimity. He is to have a toughness which trusts in the Lord come what may. At the same time he is to walk humbly because his strength is not in himself but in the Lord. Humility and strength can happily coexist. Humility is not weakness or timidity. God draws Job’s attention to Leviathan, but there is nothing timid about this creature. Leviathan cannot easily be taken, nor can he be subdued by putting him under pressure. Can you make him run and fetch for you, or come to meals at feeding time? Will he whimper and whine, or become your servant? Yet Job has done this. He has played into the hands of these friends, even though he knew they were no evangelicals. He whines and moans in order to persuade them. It was almost more than he could bear to be criticised by them. He wants their friendship, approval, respect. Are we like this? Among those we work with? Does it mean too much to us to have the approval of worldly people? Does our testimony collapse because we go to pieces when under pressure like any unconverted person and fail to prove the Lord? As we read these words we cannot look down on Job. Where would we stand in such suffering? How many believers fall into moaning and whining, even crying upon the shoulders of unbelieving friends! This is to our shame. We are people called to make a great impression upon the world, and to demonstrate and prove the power of the grace of God, but like Job we more usually live in captivity to our afflictions.