Job 12:14
Lo, He breaketh down, and it is not built up, He shutteth against a man, And it is not opened.
Young's Literal Translation
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 doth Jehovah shut thee up into my hand — and I have smitten thee, and turned aside thy head from off thee, and given the carcase of the camp of the Philistines this day to the fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth, and all the earth do know that God is for Israel.
1 Samuel 26:8And Abishai saith unto David, 'God hath shut up to-day thine enemy into thy hand; and, now, let me smite him, I pray thee, with a spear, even into the earth at once — and I do repeat [it] to him.'
Job 11:10If He pass on, and shut up, and assemble, Who then dost reverse it?
Job 19:10He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope.
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 hath opened, and none is shutting, And hath 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 →