Job 12:14
If he tears down, there is no one who can build up; if he encloses a man, there is no one who can open.
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In The King James Version
In Context
13With him is wisdom and strength, he has counsel and understanding.
Cross References
1 Samuel 17:46Today, the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down. And I will take your head from you. And today, I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air, and to the beasts of the earth, so that all the earth may know that God is with Israel.
1 Samuel 26:8And Abishai said to David: “God has enclosed your enemy this day in your hands. Now therefore, I will pierce him with my lance, through to the ground, once, and there will not need to be a second.”
Job 11:10If he overturns all things, or packs them together, who will contradict him?
Job 19:10He has destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and, like an uprooted tree, he has taken away my hope.
Ecclesiastes 7:13For as wisdom protects, so also does money protect. But learning and wisdom have this much more: that they grant life to one who possesses them.
Isaiah 22:22And I will place the key of the house of David upon his shoulder. And when he opens, no one will close. And when he closes, no one will 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 →