Job

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1:6Divine Council
1:21formed from the dust, Mother Earth
3:8Leviathan
4:12-17 — Eliphaz's experience of tardemah ("deep sleep")
4:17-19formed from the dust (Eliphaz)
5:10Theistic Meteorology analogous to Theistic Evolution
7:12The Dragon in the Sea
9:6-10Heliocentrism; Unfurling the Heavens
9:13-15 — God's conflict with Rahab
10:8-9formed from the dust (Job); Theistic Embryology
20:7Humankind's embarrassingly earthly destiny
22:14The Firmament
26:7 — the Earth hangs on nothing
26:7-13Rahab and reference to primeval theomachy; Did the Bible anticipate modern science?; God's spirit at work in nature
28:1-11 — Cited by Islip Collyer and Alan Eyre against the supposed Conflict between Science and Religion
31:15Theistic Embryology
31:33 — various translations of "adam" the common noun
32:8The Breath of LifeRuach and Neshamah
33:6formed from the dust (Elihu)
33:12-20 — Elihu describes tardemah ("deep sleep"), and how God communicates by it
34:12-15The Breath of LifeRuach and Neshamah
34:29 — usage of the Hebrew word adam.
37:14-18The Firmament, hard as a molten mirror, and other works of God
38:2 — the Bible's encouragement to study the natural world; also an example of this verse being used as a knock-down argument
38:4-7Heliocentrism
38:7Stars already existed when Earth was created
38:8-11The Primal Sea
38:12, 18-20 — sources of light and dark cf. Genesis 1:14-19 and Ecclesiastes 12:2
40:3-5 — an example to follow when we have said more than we should have
40:15-41:26Behemoth and Leviathan
41:1Leviathan, the twisting serpent
41:21Leviathan's nephesh (breath, נַ֭פְשׁוֹ)
42:1-3, 6 — a lesson to learn when discussing the Creation and God’s handiwork