Job 12:14

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"What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be set free."

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  • Isa 22:22 : 22 I will place the key to the house of David on his shoulder. What he opens, no one will shut; what he shuts, no one will open.
  • Rev 3:7 : 7 To the angel of the church in Philadelphia, write: These are the words of the Holy One, the True One, who holds the key of David, who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one can open.
  • Mal 1:4 : 4 Though Edom may say, 'We have been destroyed, but we will rebuild the ruins,' this is what the LORD of Hosts says: They may rebuild, but I will tear it down. They will be called 'The Wicked Land,' and 'The people the LORD is angry with forever.'
  • Job 11:10 : 10 If He passes by, imprisons, or calls an assembly, who can turn Him back?
  • Job 16:11 : 11 God has handed me over to the unjust and thrown me into the hands of the wicked.
  • Job 19:10 : 10 He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.
  • Job 37:7 : 7 He seals up the hands of every man, so that all people may know His work.
  • Isa 14:23 : 23 I will make her a possession for hedgehogs and swamps of water, and I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,' declares the LORD of Hosts.
  • 1 Sam 17:46 : 46 'Today, the LORD will deliver you into my hand. I will strike you down and cut off your head. I will give the corpses of the Philistines’ army today to the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the earth. Then the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.'
  • 1 Sam 24:18 : 18 He said to David, 'You are more righteous than I, for you have treated me well, but I have treated you badly.'
  • 1 Sam 26:8 : 8 Abishai said to David, "Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Now let me pin him to the ground with one thrust of the spear; I won't need to strike him twice."
  • Job 9:12-13 : 12 If He snatches away, who can stop Him? Who can say to Him, 'What are You doing? 13 God will not turn back His anger; even the helpers of Rahab bowed beneath Him.
  • Rom 11:32 : 32 For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that He may have mercy on them all.
  • Isa 25:2 : 2 For you have turned the city into a heap of ruins, the fortified city into rubble; the palace of foreigners will never be rebuilt.
  • Jer 51:58 : 58 This is what the Lord of Hosts says: The broad walls of Babylon will be utterly demolished, and her high gates burned with fire. The peoples labor in vain; the nations exhaust themselves only to fuel the flames.
  • Jer 51:64 : 64 Then you shall say, 'This is how Babylon will sink and never rise again because of the disaster I will bring upon her. Her people will grow weary.' This is the end of Jeremiah's words.

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    12If He snatches away, who can stop Him? Who can say to Him, 'What are You doing?

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    14He breaks me with breach upon breach; he rushes at me like a warrior.

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  • Job 12:19-24
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    22Yet God drags away the mighty with His power; though they rise up, they do not trust in their own lives.

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    11He dams up streams to stop their flow, and brings to light what is hidden.

  • Job 14:18-19
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    18But as a mountain crumbles and falls and a rock is displaced from its place,

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    28he will dwell in desolated cities, in houses no one inhabits, destined to become ruins.

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  • Prov 6:15
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