Job 12:14 Parallel Translations

When he tears something down, it cannot be rebuilt. When he puts someone in prison, that person cannot be freed.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

ASV:

Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

BBE:

Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.

DBY:

Behold, he breaketh down, and it is not built again; he shutteth up a man, and there is no opening.

ERV:

Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

JPS:

Behold, He breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

WBS:

Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

WEB:

Behold, he breaks down, and it can't be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

YLT:

Lo, He breaketh down, and it is not built up, He shutteth against a man, And it is not opened.

Job 12:14 Cross References

XREF:

Job 19:10 "He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; And He has uprooted my hope like a tree.

Job 37:7 "He seals the hand of every man, That all men may know His work.

Isaiah 25:2 For You have made a city into a heap, A fortified city into a ruin; A palace of strangers is a city no more, It will never be rebuilt. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

12:14 No opening - Without God's permission. Yea, he shuts up in the grave, and none can break open those sealed doors. He shuts up in hell, in chains of darkness, and none can pass that great gulf.

MHC:

12:12-25 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 gives many instances of God's powerful management of the children of men, overruling all their counsels, and overcoming all their oppositions. Having all strength and wisdom, God knows how to make use, even of those who are foolish and bad; otherwise there is so little wisdom and so little honesty in the world, that all had been in confusion and ruin long ago. These important truths were suited to convince the disputants that they were out of their depth in attempting to assign the Lord's reasons for afflicting Job; his ways are unsearchable, and his judgments past finding out. Let us remark what beautiful illustrations there are in the word of God, confirming his sovereignty, and wisdom in that sovereignty: but the highest and infinitely the most important is, that the Lord Jesus was crucified by the malice of the Jews; and who but the Lord could have known that this one event was the salvation of the world?

CONC:

Behold Breaketh Breaks Building Built Can't Imprisons Loose None Open Opened Opening Pulled Rebuild Rebuilt Release Released Shut Shuts Shutteth Tears Truly

Breaketh Breaks Building Built Imprisons Loose Open Opened Opening Pulled Rebuild Rebuilt Release Released Shut Shuts Shutteth Tears

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