Job 12:14
Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
13With him there is wisdom and strength; power and knowledge are his.
15Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.
Cross References
1 Samuel 17:46This day the Lord will give you up into my hands, and I will overcome you, and take your head off you; and I will give the bodies of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth today, so that all the earth may see that Israel has a God;
1 Samuel 26:8Then Abishai said to David, God has given up your hater into your hands today; now let me give him one blow through to the earth with his spear, and there will be no need to give him a second.
Job 11:10If he goes on his way, shutting a man up and putting him to death, who may make him go back from his purpose?
Job 19:10I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.
Ecclesiastes 7:13Give thought to the work of God. Who will make straight what he has made bent?
Isaiah 22:22And I will give the key of the family of David into his care; and what he keeps open will be shut by no one, and what he keeps shut no one will make 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 →