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Job 12:14
14If God destroys something, nobody can repair it. If God puts someone in prison, that person cannot escape.
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
12Old people are often wise. People who have lived for a long time understand things better. 13God is wise and he is also powerful. He understands things and he gives good advice. If God destroys something, nobody can repair it. If God puts someone in prison, that person cannot escape. 15If God stops the rain, the land becomes dry. If he sends lots of rain, there are floods. 16God has strength and wisdom. He has power over people who tell lies, and the people that they deceive.
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הֵ֣ן יַ֭הֲרוֹס וְלֹ֣א יִבָּנֶ֑ה יִסְגֹּ֥ר עַל־אִ֝֗ישׁ וְלֹ֣א יִפָּתֵֽחַ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 12:14
- Job 9:12If God decides to take something, nobody can stop him. Nobody can ask him, “What are you doing?”
- Job 11:10God may catch you and put you in prison. He may accuse you in a court. Nobody can stop him doing that.
- Isaiah 14:23The Lord Almighty says, ‘I will make Babylon a place where wild animals live. There will be pools of bad water. I will sweep everything away, like someone who sweeps dirt away with a brush.’
- Jeremiah 51:58The Lord Almighty says this: ‘The enemy will completely knock down the strong walls of Babylon. They will burn its high gates with fire. The nations work very hard, but their work is useless. They make themselves tired, but fire destroys all their work.’
- Malachi 1:4Esau's descendants in Edom may say, ‘They have destroyed our towns, but we will build our houses again.’ But the Lord Almighty says, ‘They may build again, but I will knock everything down. People will call Edom, “The Evil Land”. They will call them, “The Nation that the Lord is angry with for ever”.
- Job 16:11God has allowed evil men to take hold of me. He has put me under the power of wicked men.
- 1 Samuel 17:46Today the Lord will make me strong to win against you. I will knock you down and I will cut off your head. Today I will feed the birds and the wild animals with the dead bodies of the Philistine soldiers. Then everyone on the earth will know that there is a God who takes care of Israel.
- 1 Samuel 24:18You have shown me today how kind you have been to me. The Lord gave you a chance to hurt me, but you did not kill me.
- 1 Samuel 26:8Abishai said to David, ‘Tonight God has given your enemy into your power. I will push Saul's spear through his body and fix him to the ground. I will only have to do it once to kill him. I will not need to do it again.’
- Isaiah 22:22I will give the key of David's royal family to him. He will have complete authority. Any door that he opens, nobody may close it. Any door that he closes, nobody may open it.
- Romans 11:32God says that everyone is guilty because they do not obey him. He says that so that he can be kind and he can forgive everyone.
- Revelation 3:7‘Write this to the angel of the church at Philadelphia: “This is my message to you. I am the one who is completely good, the true God. I have King David's key in my hand. When I open a door, nobody can shut it. And when I shut a door, nobody can open it.
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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