Job 12:14

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֵ֣ן יַ֭הֲרוֹס וְלֹ֣א יִבָּנֶ֑ה יִסְגֹּ֥ר עַל־אִ֝֗ישׁ וְלֹ֣א יִפָּתֵֽחַ׃

Transliteration

hēn yahărôs wə-lōʾ yibbāneh yisgōr ʿal-ʾîš wə-lōʾ yippātēaḥ

Grammar Details

• *hēn*: interjection - behold
• *yahărôs*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he tears down
• *wə-lōʾ*: conjunction + negative particle - and not
• *yibbāneh*: niphal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - it will be built
• *yisgōr*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - he shuts/imprisons
• *ʿal-ʾîš*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - upon a man
• *yippātēaḥ*: niphal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - it will be opened

Word Meanings

• *hēn*: behold/see/lo
• *yahărôs*: tears down/demolishes/destroys
• *yibbāneh*: will be built/rebuilt
• *yisgōr*: shuts/imprisons/restrains
• *ʾîš*: man/person
• *yippātēaḥ*: will be opened/released

Referenced Verses

• Isa 22:22 : 22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
• Rev 3:7 : 7 And to the angel of the church 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 man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
• Mal 1:4 : 4 Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.
• Job 11:10 : 10 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
• Job 16:11 : 11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
• Job 19:10 : 10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
• Job 37:7 : 7 He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.
• Isa 14:23 : 23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
• 1 Sam 17:46 : 46 This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases 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 24:18 : 18 And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the LORD had delivered me into thine hand, thou killedst me not.
• 1 Sam 26:8 : 8 Then said Abishai 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.
• Job 9:12-13 : 12 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou? 13 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.
• Rom 11:32 : 32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
• Isa 25:2 : 2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
• Jer 51:58 : 58 Thus saith the LORD 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.
• Jer 51:64 : 64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.