“Look now at the behemoth, which I made along with you; He eats grass like an ox. See now, his strength is in his hips, And his power is in his stomach muscles. He moves his tail like a cedar; The sinews of his thighs are tightly knit.
(Job 40:15-17) NKJV
We can be certain that Job was a contemporary of Abraham. This means that when Job describes God overturning mountains, he’s recounting something that happened recently, about 200 or so years before him.
Culturally the memory was still fresh. The landscape around him was, geologically, brand new. Abraham’s great, great, great, great-grandfather survived the tectonic breakup of Pangaea. He was born on the day that the continents were torn apart and mountain ranges thrust up into the sky. A day the likes of which we have never seen.
The book of Job also includes a description of an animal which could only have been something along the lines of a Sauropod dinosaur, like a Brontosaurus. Behemoth. It’s referred to in the present tense and God uses it to picture strength and power, so it’s obviously something that Job was familiar with. It’s said to have drunk up the Jordan River so they were alive at the time of Job and Abraham, and in the general region of the Jordan.
Matty (Headwind) 