Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Job 12:14
The impotence of man in the hands of the Almighty.
Shutteth up a man] e.g. in prison.
The impotence of man in the hands of the Almighty.
Shutteth up a man] e.g. in prison.
Verse Job 12:14. _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, ski...
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 be r...
CHAPTER S 12-14 JOB'S ANSWER TO ZOPHAR _ 1. His sarcasm (Job 12:1)_ 2. He describes God's power (Job 12:7) 3. He denounces his friends (Job 13:1) 4. He appeals to God ...
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 wise...
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. SHUTTETH... OPENING. Hebrew idiom for exercising authority. Compare Revelation 3:7. Figure of speech _Paroemia._ App-6....
Job 12:7-10 referred to what one could _see_of God's power and wisdom in the world, these verses refer to what one might learn of them by _hearing_ancient men discourse regarding them. In ch. Job 13:1...
_breaketh down_ e.g. fenced cities, devoting them to ruin, cf. ch. Job 15:28. _shutteth up a man_ In prison, as captive kings and the like, cf. Jeremiah 22:24 _seq_., 2 Kings 25:27 _seq_....
3. ARBITRARILY HE DECREES WHAT WILL BE. (JOB 12:13-25) TEXT 12:13-25 13 With _God_ is wisdom and might; He hath counsel and understanding. 14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again...
_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 open...
God is powerful. He is much greater than any person. He even controls the weather (verse 15). He knows when we lie (verse 16). And he is our judge (verse 14)....
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 12 JOB REPLIES TO ZOPHAR’S...
BEHOLD, HE BREAKETH DOWN... — God has equal power over the moral and physical world....
הֵ֣ן יַ֭הֲרֹוס וְ לֹ֣א יִבָּנֶ֑ה יִסְגֹּ֥ר עַ
XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1; Job 13:1; Job 14:1 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he is the third to spe...
“GOD'S PATHS IN DEEP WATERS” Job 12:1 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...
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 guilt...
(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 unders...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
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 wa...
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,...
_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 prison...
Behold, He breaketh down, in the irresistible exercise of His almighty power, AND IT CANNOT BE BUILT AGAIN, man being powerless before His might; HE SHUTTETH UP A MAN, imprisoning him in troubles as i...
God's Government of the World...
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 that h...
UP: _ Heb._ upon...
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 c...
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 OPENING, w...
Job 12:14 down H2040 (H8799) rebuilt H1129 (H8735) imprisons H5462 (H8799) man H376 release H6605 ...
CONTENTS: Job answers his three friends, extolling God's wisdom. CHARACTERS: God, Job, three friends. CONCLUSION: There is a wise providence which guides and governs all things by rules with which t...
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 fo...
_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. 2....
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 12:1 In the longest response of the dialogues with his three friends, Job shows his growing frustration with their claims of wisdom (even though he agrees with them about God’s supreme...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 12:13 In these verses, Job asserts that God’s providential governing of the world is much more extensive than his friends realize. ⇐...
_JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR_ I. Defends himself against the charge of ignorance implied in Zophar’s speech (Job 12:2). His defence is:— 1. _Ironical_ (Job 12:2). “No doubt but ye are the people; and wisd...
EXPOSITION The discourse of Job, here begun, continues through three chapters (Job 12:1; Job 13:1; Job 14:1.). It is thought to form the conclusion of the first day's colloquy. In it Job for the first...
So Job answered him and said, No doubt but you are the people, and wisdom is going to die with you (Job 12:1-2). He's about had it with these guys who think they know all the answers, and they're not...
1 Samuel 17:46; 1 Samuel 24:18; 1 Samuel 26:8; Isaiah 14:23; Isai
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....