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God enables Job to look down on earth to view the wonders of his creation. The Behemoth is represented as a kind of hippopotamus, and represents the forces of the land. Its stylised form derives, like many other interpretations of the theme, from Durer's famous woodcut of a rhinoceros (1515), while the Leviathan is a great sea monster, not dissimilar to the serpent in Job's Evil Dream, rising out of the deep. (Monsters and Maidens, 2004)