' . his hand pierced the fleeing serpent' (Job 26:13 ESV)One of the most challenging passages in the Old Testament book of Job comes in the Lord's second speech (chapters 40-41). The characters and the reader have waited a long time for the Lord to speak - only to receive what is traditionally interpreted as a long description of a hippopotamus and a crocodile (Behemoth and Leviathan).The stakes are very high. Is God right to run the world in such a way that allows such terr...