Job 12:14
Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
American Standard Version
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In Context
13With [God] is wisdom and might; He hath counsel and understanding.
Cross References
1 Samuel 17:46This day will Jehovah 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 host of the Philistines this day unto the birds of the heavens, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,
1 Samuel 26:8Then said Abishai to David, God hath 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 pass through, and shut up, And all unto judgment, then who can hinder him?
Job 19:10He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.
Ecclesiastes 7:13Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which 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 →