Job 12:14
Behold, He breaks down, and it is not built up, || He shuts against a man, || And it is not opened.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
13With Him [are] wisdom and might, || To Him [are] counsel and understanding.
Cross References
1 Samuel 17:46This day YHWH shuts you up into my hand—and I have struck you, and turned aside your head from off you, and given the carcass of the camp of the Philistines this day to the bird of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth, and all the earth knows that God is for Israel!
1 Samuel 26:8And Abishai says to David, “God has shut up your enemy into your hand today; and now, please let me strike him with [the] spear, even into the earth, at once—and not repeat [it] to him.”
Job 11:10If He passes on, and shuts up, and assembles, || Who then reverses it?
Job 19:10He breaks me down all around, and I go, || And removes my hope like a tree.
Ecclesiastes 7:13See the work of God, || For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?
Isaiah 22:22And I have placed the key || Of the house of David on his shoulder, || And he has opened, and none is shutting, || And has shut, and none is opening.
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 →