Mastery Over Nature
Job notes that God moves these massive geological features without them knowing it and overturns them in His anger.
What are mountains?
Job references this animalistically named constellation, which God made alongside Orion and the Pleiades.
What is the Bear?
Job laments that his days are moving swifter than this type of fast-moving person.
What is a runner?
Job reminds God that he was structurally molded like this moldable, organic substance.
What is clay?
Job laments that he cannot confront God in court because God is not a mere one of these, like himself.
What is a mortal?
God speaks to this specific celestial body and it stops shining.
What is the sun?
This famous celestial hunter constellation is explicitly named by Job as a creation of God.
What is Orion?
Job compares the swift passage of his life to boats constructed out of this plant material.
What is papyrus?
Job asks God if He plans to turn him back into this fine, powdery substance.
What is dust?
Job wishes for this type of third-party individual to mediate between him and God.
What is a mediator (or someone to bring them together)?
God alone is said to stretch out the heavens and tread on the waves of this body of water.
What is the sea?
This star cluster is grouped together with Orion and the Bear in Chapter 9.
What are the Pleiades?
Job's days fly past like these birds of prey swooping down on their targets.
What are eagles?
In a vivid dairy-related metaphor, Job asks God if He curdled him like this food item.
What is cheese?
Job states that when a land falls into the hands of the wicked, God does this action to its judges.
What is blindfolds them?
When shaking the earth from its place, God makes these structural features tremble.
What are its pillars?
** BET THE FARM **
In addition to specific star groups, God is credited as the Maker of these star collections of the south.
What are the constellations?
Job feels his days are flying away without ever catching a single glimpse of this emotion.
What is joy?
Before being curdled, Job asks God if He poured him out like this liquid beverage.
What is milk?
Even if Job washed his hands with cleansing powder, he claims God would plunge him into this filthy place.
What is a slime pit?
God does not restrain His anger, causing the cohorts of this entity to cower at His feet.
What is Rahab?
Job states that God shuts off the light of these celestial objects by sealing them.
What are the stars?
Job begs God to look away from him so he can experience a brief moment of comfort before going to this place "of no return."
What is the land of gloom/utter darkness?
** DAILY DOUBLE **
Job states that God clothed him with skin and flesh, and knit him together with bones and these connective tissues.
What are sinews (tendons)?
Job claims that if he dares to hold his head high, God will stalk him like this predatory beast.
What is a lion?