In wisdom you have made them all;
the earth is full of your creatures.
Yonder is the sea, great and wide,
creeping things innumerable are there,
living things both small and great.
There go the ships,
and Leviathan that you formed to sport in it.
Many, perhaps most, consider God purposeful, as in goal-oriented. There is specific divine intent.
God can also be understood as creating a process of unfolding discovery.
In the original Hebrew, the final line above reads:
לִוְיָתָן, זֶה-יָצַרְתָּ לְשַׂחֶק-בּוֹ. (Livyathan zeh yester sachaq)
Yester is to form. It is also to imagine, to devise, to frame up. There is the suggestion of creating potential.
The potential here is for sport - for sachaq - for joy, for playing music, for dancing, and for laughter.
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