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Job 12:14
14Behold, He tears down, and it cannot be rebuilt; He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
Job 12:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
- New International Version (NIV)What he tears down cannot be rebuilt; those he imprisons cannot be released.
- English Standard Version (ESV)If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.
- New King James Version (NKJV)If He breaks a thing down, it cannot be rebuilt; If He imprisons a man, there can be no release.
Context of Job 12:14
12With the aged [you say] is wisdom, And with long life is understanding. 13“But [only] with Him are [perfect] wisdom and might; He [alone] has [true] counsel and understanding. Behold, He tears down, and it cannot be rebuilt; He imprisons a man, and there can be no release. 15Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up; Again, He sends the waters out, and they overwhelm and devastate the earth. 16With Him are might and sound wisdom, The misled and the misleader are His [and in His power].
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הֵ֣ן יַ֭הֲרוֹס וְלֹ֣א יִבָּנֶ֑ה יִסְגֹּ֥ר עַל־אִ֝֗ישׁ וְלֹ֣א יִפָּתֵֽחַ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 12:14
- Job 9:12Behold, He snatches away; who can restrain or turn Him back? Who will say to Him, ‘What are You doing?’
- Job 11:10If God passes by or arrests, Or calls an assembly [of judgment], who can restrain Him? [If He is against a man, who can call Him to account for it?]
- Isaiah 14:23“I will also make Babylon a possession of the hedgehog and of swamps of water, and I will sweep it away with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of hosts.
- Jeremiah 51:58Thus says the Lord of hosts, “The broad wall of Babylon will be completely overthrown and the foundations razed And her high gates will be set on fire; The peoples will labor in vain, And the nations become exhausted [only] for fire [that will destroy their work].”
- Malachi 1:4Though [impoverished] Edom says, “We have been beaten down, but we will return and build up the ruins.” Thus says the Lord of hosts, “They may build, but I will tear down; and men will call them the Wicked Territory, the people against whom the Lord is indignant forever.”
- Job 16:11God hands me over to criminals And tosses me [headlong] into the hands of the wicked.
- 1 Samuel 17:46This day the Lord will hand you over to me, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. And I will give the corpses of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky and the wild beasts of the earth, so that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,
- 1 Samuel 24:18You have declared today the good that you have done to me, for when the Lord put me into your hand, you did not kill me.
- 1 Samuel 26:8Then Abishai said to David, “God has given your enemy into your hand this day; now then, please let me strike him with the spear driving it to the ground with one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.”
- Isaiah 22:22Then I will set on his shoulder the key of the house of David; When he opens no one will shut, When he shuts no one will open.
- Romans 11:32For God has imprisoned all in disobedience so that He may show mercy to all [Jew and Gentile alike].
- Revelation 3:7“And to the angel (divine messenger) of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the Holy One, the True One, He who has the key [to the house] of David, He who opens and no one will [be able to] shut, and He who shuts and no one opens:
Commentaries on Job 12:14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14He breaketh down - He alone can create, and he alone can destroy. Nothing can be annihilated but by the same Power that created it. This is a most remarkable fact. No power, skill, or cunning of man can annihilate the smallest particle of matter. Man, by chemical agency, may change its form; but to reduce it to nothing belongs to God alone. In the course of his providence God breaks down, so that it cannot be built up again. See proofs of this in the…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14Behold, he breaketh down - None can repair what he pulls down. Cities and towns he can devote to ruin by fire, or earthquake, or the pestilence, and so completely destroy them that they can never be rebuilt. We may now refer to such illustrations as Sodom, Babylon, Petra, Tyre, Herculaneum, and Pompeii, as full proof of what is here affirmed. He shutteth up a man - He can shut up a man in such difficulties and straits that he cannot extricate himself; see…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-25Verses 12-25 This is a noble discourse of Job concerning the wisdom, power, and sovereignty of God, in ordering all the affairs of the children of men, according to the counsel of His own will, which none can resist. It were well if wise and good men, who differ about lesser things, would see how it is for their honour and comfort, and the good of others, to dwell most upon the great things in which they agree. Here are no complaints, or reflections. He…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. shutteth up--(Is 22:22). Job refers to Zophar's "shut up" (Job 11:10).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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