Job 12:14
Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again. He shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
13With [God] is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.
Cross References
1 Samuel 17:46This day LORD will deliver thee into my hand, and I will smite thee, and take thy head from off thee. And I will give the dead bodies of the armies of the Philistines this day to the birds of the heavens, and to the wild beasts of
1 Samuel 26:8Then said Abishai to David, God has delivered up thine enemy into thy hand this day. Now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not smite him the second time.
Job 11:10If he passes through, and shuts up, and all to judgment, then who can hinder him?
Job 19:10He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. And he has plucked up my hope like a tree.
Ecclesiastes 7:13Consider the work of God. For who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?
Isaiah 22:22And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his shoulder, and he shall open, and none shall shut, and he shall shut, and none shall open.
Matthew Henry on Job 12:13-25
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 be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening. 15 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up: also he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth. 16 With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his. 17 He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools. 18 He looseth… Read the whole commentary →