Job 12:14

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

12Wisdom is with the aged, And with long life comes understanding. 13“Wisdom and might are with Him; Advice and understanding belong to Him. Behold, He tears down, and it cannot be rebuilt; He imprisons a person, and there is no release. 15Behold, He restrains the waters, and they dry up; And He sends them out, and they inundate the earth. 16Strength and sound wisdom are with Him. One who goes astray and one who leads astray belong to Him.

Job 12:14 word by word

הֵ֣ן יַ֭הֲרוֹס וְלֹ֣א יִבָּנֶ֑ה יִסְגֹּ֥ר עַל־אִ֝֗ישׁ וְלֹ֣א יִפָּתֵֽחַ׃Read the interlinear

• Beholdהֵןhên · look!H2005
• tearsהָרַסhâras · to overthrowH2040
• and it cannotלֹאlô' lô' lôh · notH3808
• be rebuiltבָּנָהbânâh · to buildH1129
• imprisonsסָגַרsâgar · to shutH5462
• a personאִישׁ'îysh · manH376
• releaseפָּתַחpâthach · to openH6605

Cross-references for Job 12:14

• Job 9:12If He were to snatch away, who could restrain Him? Who could say to Him, ‘What are You doing?’
• Job 11:10If He passes by or apprehends people, Or calls an assembly, who can restrain Him?
• Isaiah 14:23“I will also make it the property of the hedgehog and swamps of water, and I will sweep it away with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of armies.
• Jeremiah 51:58This is what the Lord of armies says: “The broad wall of Babylon will be completely demolished, And her high gates will be set on fire; So the peoples will labor for nothing, And the nations become exhausted only for fire.”
• Malachi 1:4Though Edom says, “We have been beaten down, but we will return and build up the ruins”; this is what the Lord of armies says: “They may build, but I will tear down; and people will call them the territory of wickedness, and the people with whom the Lord is indignant forever.”
• Job 16:11God hands me over to criminals, And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.
• 1 Samuel 17:46This day the Lord will hand you over to me, and I will strike you and remove your head from you. Then I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the earth, so that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,
• 1 Samuel 24:18You have declared today that you have done good to me, that the Lord handed me over to you and yet you did not kill me.
• 1 Samuel 26:8Then Abishai said to David, “Today God has handed your enemy over to you; now then, please let me pin him with the spear to the ground with one thrust, and I will not do it to him a second time.”
• Isaiah 22:22Then I will put the key of the house of David on his shoulder; When he opens, no one will shut, When he shuts, no one will open.
• Romans 11:32For God has shut up all in disobedience, so that He may show mercy to all.
• Revelation 3:7“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: He who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says this:

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