Excerpt from A Wonderful Discovery in the Book of Job: Behemoth and Leviathan, Found to Refer to the Stationary and Self-Propelling, Steam Engines of Our Days
In this age of wonderful discoveries when the impossible seems to be a thing of the past, and the unknowable but a word which is daily losing its meaning, I hope I will not be considered presumptuous for claiming to have discovered, in the Holy Bible, a most extraordinary and exact description of our modern steam engine, with details of its various parts and of many of its peculiar characteristics.
The description I allude to is, that of the behemoth and leviathan found in the latter part of that most ancient book called The Book of Job.
Job, is said to have been a descendant of Esau, and to have lived in the land of Uz, near the borders of Arabia.
Chronologists do not agree as to the exact time in which he lived, but it may be safely computed to have been about 3500 years ago. He is represented as having been a most righteous and learned man; and to have experienced many severe trials and acute sufferings, with an unparalleled patience and resignation to the will of God.