God asks 'Can you fill his skin with harpoons, or his head with fishing spears?' asking whether Job can harm Leviathan with weapons. The questions about harpoons and spears suggest tools of hunting and warfare. Such weapons are useless against Leviathan. The verse establishes that Leviathan is invulnerable to human weapons. No instrument of warfare or hunting can harm the creature. The accumulation of questions about Leviathan's invulnerability and uncontrollability now becomes overwhelming: Leviathan cannot be captured, controlled, negotiated with, domesticated, bought, or harmed. What is Job to make of such a creature?

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