Job 12:14 BSB — MannaFest

Job 12:14

What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

2 voices

Gregory the Dialogist

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XI (604)

If He break down, there is none that can build again: if He shut up a man, there is none that can open. Almighty God 'breaks down' the heart of man, when He forsakes it; He 'builds it up,' when He fills it. For He does not destroy man's soul by consummation of war, but by withdrawing Himself from it; in that when it is left to itself, it wants nothing to its own ruin.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

He 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.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הֵ֣ן	hen	there!	H2005 →
יַ֭הֲרוֹס	Ya.ha.ros	he tears down	H2040 →
וְלֹ֣א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
יִבָּנֶ֑ה	yi.ba.Neh	it will be rebuilt	H1129 →
יִסְגֹּ֥ר	yis.Gor	he shuts	H5462 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
אִ֝֗ישׁ	'Ish	a person	H376 →
וְלֹ֣א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
יִפָּתֵֽחַ׃	yi.pa.Te.ach	it will be opened	H6605 →

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 22:22
I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.
leads to
- Revelation 3:7
  To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the One who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What He opens no one can shut,…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Matthew 16:18–19
  And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
- Matthew 18:18–19
  Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
Through
Revelation 3:7
To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the One who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What He opens no one can shut,…
leads to
- Isaiah 22:22
  I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.
- Revelation 1:18
  the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Matthew 16:19
  I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
- John 14:6
  Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
- Mark 1:24

About Job

Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Job

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

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About Job