two animals, Behemoth and Leviathan, hippopotamus and crocodile, symbols of primeval chaos, who of all the animal creation are supremely wild and terrible. The point must be that hippopotamus and crocodile, however alarming, are part of God’s creation. God expects Job to realize, and Job is not slow at grasping the point, that the natural order—the principles on which the world was created—is analogous to the moral order—the principles according to which it is governed. In both these orders, there