God continues 'If no one is fierce enough to rouse him up, who then is he that can stand before me?' This verse draws an explicit comparison between Leviathan and God. If no one is fierce enough to rouse Leviathan, then certainly no one can stand before God. The comparison suggests that Leviathan's power is analogous to God's power, and if humans are powerless before Leviathan, they are certainly powerless before God. The verse makes explicit the implicit point of the entire Leviathan description: Job, who cannot even master a creature, certainly cannot judge the Creator. The comparison is meant to humble Job by establishing that if he cannot control a creature, he cannot presume to evaluate God.

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