Job 12:14
Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
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In Context
13“With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.
Cross References
1 Samuel 17:46Today, the LORD will deliver you into my hand. I will strike you and take your head from off you. I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines today to the birds of the sky and to the wild animals of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,
1 Samuel 26:8Then Abishai said to David, “God has delivered up your enemy into your hand today. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.”
Job 11:10If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?
Job 19:10He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.
Ecclesiastes 7:13Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight which he has made crooked?
Isaiah 22:22I will lay the key of David’s house on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will 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 →