Job 12:14
Behold, he breaketh down, and it is not built again; he shutteth up a man, and there is no opening.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
13With him is wisdom and might; he hath counsel and understanding.
Cross References
1 Samuel 17:46This day will Jehovah deliver thee up into my hand; and I will smite thee, and take thy head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the camp of the Philistines this day to the fowl of the heavens and to the wild beasts of the earth. And all the earth shall know that Israel has a God;
1 Samuel 26:8And Abishai said to David, God has delivered thine enemy into thy hand this day; and now let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear, even to the ground once, and I will not do it the second time.
Job 11:10If he pass by, and shut up, and call to judgment, who can hinder him?
Job 19:10He breaketh me down on every side, and I am gone; and my hope hath he torn up as a tree.
Ecclesiastes 7:13Consider the work of God; for who can make straight what he hath made crooked?
Isaiah 22:22And the key of the house of David will I lay 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 →