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Job 12

Job 12:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Behold, he breaketh down
harac (Hebrew #2040)
to pull down or in pieces, break, destroy
KJV usage: beat down, break (down, through), destroy, overthrow, pluck down, pull down, ruin, throw down, X utterly.
Pronounce: haw-ras'
Origin: a primitive root
, and it cannot be built again
banah (Hebrew #1129)
to build (literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (begin to) build(-er), obtain children, make, repair, set (up), X surely.
Pronounce: baw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root
: he shutteth θup
cagar (Hebrew #5462)
to shut up; figuratively, to surrender
KJV usage: close up, deliver (up), give over (up), inclose, X pure, repair, shut (in, self, out, up, up together), stop, X straitly.
Pronounce: saw-gar'
Origin: a primitive root
a man
'iysh (Hebrew #376)
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
KJV usage: also, another, any (man), a certain, + champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-)man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), + none, one, people, person, + steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare 802.
Pronounce: eesh
Origin: contracted for 582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant)
, and there can be no opening
pathach (Hebrew #6605)
to open wide (literally or figuratively); specifically, to loosen, begin, plough, carve
KJV usage: appear, break forth, draw (out), let go free, (en-)grave(-n), loose (self), (be, be set) open(-ing), put off, ungird, unstop, have vent.
Pronounce: paw-thakh'
Origin: a primitive root
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upon.

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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he breaketh.
Job 9:12‑13• 12Lo, he snatcheth away: who shall turn him away?{HR}Who saith to him, What doest thou?
 13God turneth not from his wrath:{HR}The helpers of pride have stooped under him. (Job 9:12‑13)
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Job 11:10• 10If he pass by, and arrest,{HR}And gather together, who can hinder him? (Job 11:10)
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Isa. 14:23• 23I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith Jehovah of hosts. (Isa. 14:23)
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Jer. 51:58,64• 58Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
 64and shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise, because of the evil that I will bring upon it: and they shall be weary. Thus far the words of Jeremiah. (Jer. 51:58,64)
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Mal. 1:4• 4Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom Jehovah hath indignation forever. (Mal. 1:4)
he shutteth.
Job 16:11• 11God hath shut me up to the unrighteous,{HR}And thrown me over into the hand of the wicked. (Job 16:11)
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1 Sam. 17:46• 46This day will Jehovah deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcasss of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God, in Israel; (1 Sam. 17:46)
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1 Sam. 24:18• 18And thou hast showed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when Jehovah had delivered me into thine hand, thou killedst me not. (1 Sam. 24:18)
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1 Sam. 26:8• 8And Abishai said to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day; now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time. (1 Sam. 26:8)
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1 Sam. 26•  (1 Sam. 26)
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Isa. 22:22• 22And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; and he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. (Isa. 22:22)
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Rom. 11:32• 32For God hath shut all together into disobedience that to all he might show mercy. (Rom. 11:32)
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Rom. 11•  (Rom. 11)
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Rev. 3:7• 7And to the angel of the church that is in Philadelphia write, These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and no one shall shut, and that shutteth and no one shall open: (Rev. 3:7)
up.
Heb. upon.
• Truly this is right, if they deserve it, but Job omits that side (vers. 14-21). (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

W. Kelly Translation

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He breaketh down, and it is not built up.{HR}He shutteth up on man, and it is not opened.