Job 12:14
If he should cast down, who will build up? 1 If he should shut up against men, who shall open? 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
13With him are wisdom and power, 1 With him counsel and understanding. 1
Cross References
1 Samuel 17:46this day. And the Lord shall deliver thee this day into my hand; and I will slay thee, and take away thy head from off thee, and will give thy limbs and the limbs of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky, and to the wild beasts of the earth; and all the earth shall know that there is a God in Israel.
1 Samuel 26:8And Abishai said to David, The Lord has this day shut up thine enemy into thy hands, and now I will smite him to the earth with the spear to the ground once for all, and I will not smite him again.
Job 11:10And if he should overthrow all things, who will say to him, What hast thou done? 1
Job 19:10He has torn me round about, and I am gone: 1 And he has cut off my hope like a tree. 1
Ecclesiastes 7:13Behold the works of God: 1 For who shall be able to straighten 1 Him whom God has made crooked? 1
Isaiah 22:22And I will give him the glory of David; and he shall rule, and there shall be none to speak against him: and I will give him the key of the house of David upon his shoulder; and he shall open, and there shall be none to shut; and he shall shut, and there shall be none to 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 →