The Meaning of Job 12:14 Explained

Job 12:14

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

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

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

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

Discover Job 12:14

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Job 12:14?

MEANING: What does Job 12:14 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Job 12:14 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Job 12:14?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Job 12:14 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 12:1-25 - "god's Paths In Deep Waters"
Job sets himself to disprove Zophar's contention that wickedness invariably causes insecurity in men's dwellings; and in doing so he bitterly complains that his friends mocked at him so contemptuously. He says that they remind him of those who are glad enough of a torch when their foot is slipping in the dark, but cast it aside when they reach their quarters, Job 12:5.
Those who rob are often the most prosperous, Job 12:6, and nature teaches that the animals and plants which are most sturdy in their self-assertion are most secure. Is not the vulture more secure than the dove, the lion than the ox, the shark than the dolphin, the rose than the thorn which tears it? In all such cases you cannot explain the mystery except by referring it to the will of God, whose reasons are past finding out. Similar mysteries beset human life.
Job still further illustrates his point from human life, showing that the lives of counselors, judges, kings, priests, princes, and elders are exposed to the same apparent anomalies and inequalities of treatment. We know, however, that suffering is purifying to the soul, and often redemptive, as Christ's was, for others. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 12

1  Job maintains himself against his friends that reprove him
7  He acknowledges the doctrine of God's omnipotence

What do the individual words in Job 12:14 mean?

If He breaks [a thing] down and cannot it be rebuilt [If] He imprisons on a man and no there can be release
הֵ֣ן יַ֭הֲרוֹס וְלֹ֣א יִבָּנֶ֑ה יִסְגֹּ֥ר עַל־ אִ֝֗ישׁ וְלֹ֣א יִפָּתֵֽחַ

יַ֭הֲרוֹס  He  breaks  [a  thing]  down 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: הָרַס  
Sense: to tear down, break down, overthrow, beat down, break, break through, destroy, pluck down, pull down, throw down, ruined, destroyer, utterly.
וְלֹ֣א  and  cannot 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Adverb, Negative particle
Root: הֲלֹא 
Sense: not, no.
יִבָּנֶ֑ה  it  be  rebuilt 
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: בָּנָה  
Sense: to build, rebuild, establish, cause to continue.
יִסְגֹּ֥ר  [If]  He  imprisons 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: סָגוּר 
Sense: to shut, close.
אִ֝֗ישׁ  a  man 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: אִישׁ 
Sense: man.
וְלֹ֣א  and  no 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Adverb, Negative particle
Root: הֲלֹא 
Sense: not, no.
יִפָּתֵֽחַ  there  can  be  release 
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: פָּתַח 
Sense: to open.

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