"Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be rebuilt; he shuts a man in, and there can be no release." Job moves from theoretical divine power to its devastating concrete expression. God's ability to destroy without restoration is asserted as part of the divine prerogative. This verse unsettles the friends' optimism about divine justice being restorative; instead, Job insists that God's power often terminates rather than rehabilitates.

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