Job 12:14

American Standard Version (1901)

Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

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  • Isa 22:22 : 22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; and he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
  • Rev 3:7 : 7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and none shall shut, and that shutteth and none openeth:
  • Mal 1:4 : 4 Whereas Edom saith, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places; thus saith Jehovah of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and men shall call them The border of wickedness, and The people against whom Jehovah hath indignation for ever.
  • Job 11:10 : 10 If he pass through, and shut up, And call unto judgment, then who can hinder him?
  • Job 16:11 : 11 God delivereth me to the ungodly, And casteth me into the hands of the wicked.
  • Job 19:10 : 10 He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.
  • Job 37:7 : 7 He sealeth up the hand of every man, That all men whom he hath made may know [it] .
  • Isa 14:23 : 23 I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith Jehovah of hosts.
  • 1 Sam 17:46 : 46 This day will Jehovah deliver thee into my hand; and I will smite thee, and take thy head from off thee; and I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day unto the birds of the heavens, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,
  • 1 Sam 24:18 : 18 And thou hast declared this day how that thou hast dealt well with me, forasmuch as when Jehovah had delivered me up into thy hand, thou killedst me not.
  • 1 Sam 26:8 : 8 Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered up thine enemy into thy hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not smite him the second time.
  • Job 9:12-13 : 12 Behold, he seizeth [the prey], who can hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou? 13 God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rahab do stoop under him.
  • Rom 11:32 : 32 For God hath shut up all unto disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all.
  • Isa 25:2 : 2 For thou hast made of a city a heap, of a fortified city a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
  • Jer 51:58 : 58 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.
  • Jer 51:64 : 64 and thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring upon her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

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  • Job 12:15-17
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    15 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; Again, 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 stripped, And judges maketh he fools.

  • Job 11:10-11
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    10 If he pass through, and shut up, And call unto judgment, then who can hinder him?

    11 For he knoweth false men: He seeth iniquity also, even though he consider it not.

  • 13 With [God] is wisdom and might; He hath counsel and understanding.

  • 12 Behold, he seizeth [the prey], who can hinder him? Who will say unto him, What doest thou?

  • 14 He breaketh me with breach upon breach; He runneth upon me like a giant.

  • Job 34:24-25
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    24 He breaketh in pieces mighty men [in ways] past finding out, And setteth others in their stead.

    25 Therefore he taketh knowledge of their works; And he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

  • Job 12:19-24
    6 verses
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    19 He leadeth priests away stripped, And overthroweth the mighty.

    20 He removeth the speech of the trusty, And taketh away the understanding of the elders.

    21 He poureth contempt upon princes, And looseth the belt of the strong.

    22 He uncovereth deep things out of darkness, And bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

    23 He increaseth the nations, and he destroyeth them: He enlargeth the nations, and he leadeth them captive.

    24 He taketh away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, And causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

  • 3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, And bringest me into judgment with thee?

  • 10 And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors,

  • 22 Yet [God] preserveth the mighty by his power: He riseth up that hath no assurance of life.

  • 17 that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that let not loose his prisoners to their home?

  • Job 9:4-5
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    72%

    4 [ He is] wise in heart, and mighty in strength: Who hath hardened himself against him, and prospered?--

    5 [ Him] that removeth the mountains, and they know it not, When he overturneth them in his anger;

  • 14 And he shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces thereof a sherd wherewith to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.

  • 11 He bindeth the streams that they trickle not; And the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.

  • Job 14:18-19
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    71%

    18 But the mountain falling cometh to nought; And the rock is removed out of its place;

    19 The waters wear the stones; The overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth: So thou destroyest the hope of man.

  • 29 When he giveth quietness, who then can condemn? And when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? Alike whether [it be done] unto a nation, or unto a man:

  • 28 And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;

  • 8 He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.

  • 16 For he hath broken the gates of brass, And cut the bars of iron in sunder.

  • 15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; On a sudden shall he be broken, and that without remedy.

  • 7 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, And his own counsel shall cast him down.

  • 13 Beware lest ye say, We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not man:

  • 9 that bringeth sudden destruction upon the strong, so that destruction cometh upon the fortress.

  • 11 For, behold, Jehovah commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

  • 5 Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

  • 9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: Will not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

  • 12 So man lieth down and riseth not: Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.

  • 12 He stirreth up the sea with his power, And by his understanding he smiteth through Rahab.

  • 5 Because they regard not the works of Jehovah, Nor the operation of his hands, He will break them down and not build them up.

  • 6 Sheol is naked before [God], And Abaddon hath no covering.

  • 9 He putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock; He overturneth the mountains by the roots.

  • 14 Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.

  • 15 He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure.

  • 17 For he breaketh me with a tempest, And multiplieth my wounds without cause.

  • 13 But he is in one [mind], and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

  • 24 Howbeit doth not one stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

  • 14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;

  • 9 He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.

  • 19 He lieth down rich, but he shall not be gathered [to his fathers] ; He openeth his eyes, and he is not.