Job 12:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Job 12:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Behold, 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...

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• Job 12:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Eliphaz had appealed to revelation, Bildad to the wisdom of the ancients, Zophar assumes that he himself is the oracle of God's wisdom. Job answers this assumption. Firstly Zophar is not the only wis...

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• Job 12:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6. shutteth... opening. Hebrew idiom for exercising authority. Compare Revelation 3:7 . Figure of speech Paroemia. App-6.

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• Job 12:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening. He breaketh down - He alone can create, and he alone can destroy. Nothing can be annihilated...

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• Job 12:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening. Shutteth up. "He shall open, and none shall shut; and He shall shut, and none shall...

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• Job 12:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Job's Third Speech (Job 12-14) The friends have said God is wise and mighty. Job replies, 'I know that as well as you. You infer that He is also righteous, but experience shows that His power and...

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• Job 12:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Behold, he breaketh down... — God has equal power over the moral and physical world.

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• Job 12:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1-25 ; Job 13:1-28 ; Job 14:1-22 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he...

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• Job 12:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “God's Paths in Deep Waters” Job 12:1-25 Job sets himself to disprove Zophar's contention that wickedness invariably causes insecurity in men's dwellings; and in doing so he bitterly complains...

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• Job 12:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Job's last reply in this first cycle is to the whole argument, as well as to Zophar's application of it. From beginning to end, it thrills with sarcasm, while it maintains its denial of personal guil...

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• Job 12:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (11) Doth not the ear try words? and the mouth taste his meat? (12) В¶ With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. (13) With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and under...

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• Job 12:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again ,.... Which some restrain to the tower of Babel; but though the builders of it were obliged to desist from building, it does not appear that it...

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• Job 12:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening. Ver. 14. Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again ] As he did the old world...

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• Job 12:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Behold, he breaketh down Houses, castles, cities; and it cannot be built again It is not in the power of any creature to repair what he designs utterly to destroy. He shutteth up a man In priso...

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• Job 12:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  JOB EMPHASISES GOD'S GREATNESS AND WISDOM (vv.1-25) Job's reply to Zophar was understandably sarcastic, "No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!" (v.2). Zophar had implied tha...

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• Job 12:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        12 With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.   13 With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding.   14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot b...

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• Job 12:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  He breaketh down, to wit, houses, castles, cities, which God designeth to destroy utterly. He shutteth up; if he will shut up a man in prison, or in any straits or troubles. There can be no open...

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• Job 12:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR I. Defends himself against the charge of ignorance implied in Zophar’s speech ( Job 12:2-3 ). His defence is:— 1. Ironical ( Job 12:2 ). “No doubt but ye are the people...

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• Job 12:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 12:6 . The tabernacles of robbers prosper. Or as it might be rendered, a placid tranquility gladdens the tabernacles of robbers; referring to the Arabs, who plunder the merchants. This and the...

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• Job 12:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Behold, He breaketh down. Job’s maxims Perhaps Job uses this lofty language concerning God for two reasons. 1. To show that he could speak as grandly of the Eternal as his friends had spoken...

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• Job 12:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION The discourse of Job, here begun, continues through three chapters ( Job 12:1-18 ; Job 13:1-18 ; Job 14:1-18 .). It is thought to form the conclusion of the first day's colloquy. In...

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• Job 12:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  God's Government of the World

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• Job 12:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 17:46 ; 1 Samuel 24:18 ; 1 Samuel 26:8 ; Isaiah 14:23 ; Isaiah 22:22 ; Jeremiah 51:58 ; Jeremiah 51:64 ; Job 11:10 ; Job 16:11 ; Job 9:12 ; Job 9:13 ; Malachi 1:4 ; Revelation 3...

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• Job 12:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  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.

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