Job 12:14
What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.
Majority Standard Bible
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In Context
13Wisdom and strength belong to God; counsel and understanding are His.
15If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land.
Cross References
1 Samuel 17:46This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand. This day I will strike you down, cut off your head, and give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds of the air and the creatures of the earth. Then the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.
1 Samuel 26:8Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Now, therefore, please let me thrust the spear through him into the ground with one stroke. I will not need to strike him twice!”
Job 11:10If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?
Job 19:10He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.
Ecclesiastes 7:13Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
Isaiah 22:22I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can 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 →