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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  • Job 12:15-17
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    15 "If He holds back the waters, they dry up; if He sends them out, they overwhelm the earth."

    16 "With Him are strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are His."

    17 "He leads counselors away stripped and makes fools of judges."

  • Job 11:10-11
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    10 If He passes by, imprisons, or calls an assembly, who can turn Him back?

    11 For He knows worthless men; He sees iniquity, even when He does not consider it.

  • 13 "With Him are wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are His."

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

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

  • Job 34:24-25
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    24 He shatters the mighty without inquiry and sets others in their place.

    25 Because He knows their deeds, He overturns them in the night, and they are crushed.

  • Job 12:19-24
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    19 "He leads priests away stripped and overthrows the mighty."

    20 He silences the speech of the trustworthy and takes away the discernment of the elders.

    21 He pours out contempt on nobles and loosens the belts of the strong.

    22 He reveals the deep things from darkness and brings deep shadows into the light.

    23 He makes nations great and then destroys them; He enlarges nations and guides them away.

    24 He removes the understanding of the leaders of the earth's people and makes them wander in a pathless wasteland.

  • 3 Do you fix your gaze on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?

  • 10 when I set its boundary and placed bars and doors on it,

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

  • 17 Who made the world a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to release his prisoners to their homes?'

  • Job 9:4-5
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    4 He is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has resisted Him and remained unharmed?

    5 He removes mountains without their knowing it, and overturns them in His anger.

  • 14 'Its collapse will be like that of a jar shattered into pieces so small that no fragment can be used to scoop fire from the hearth or draw water from a cistern.'

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

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

    19 as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil of the earth, so you destroy the hope of man.

  • 29 When He gives quietness, who can condemn? When He hides His face, who can behold Him? Yet He watches over both nation and man alike.

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

  • 8 He has blocked my path so I cannot pass; He has shrouded my ways with darkness.

  • 16 For He has broken down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.

  • 15 Therefore his disaster will come suddenly; in an instant, he will be broken beyond healing.

  • 7 His vigorous steps will be restricted, and his own counsel will cast him down.

  • 13 Do not say, ‘We have found wisdom; let God, not a man, refute him.’

  • 9 He flashes destruction upon the mighty and brings ruin upon the fortified city.

  • 11 For the LORD has given the command: The great house will be shattered into pieces, and the small house into bits.

  • 5 A person’s days are determined; you have decreed the number of their months and set limits they cannot exceed.

  • 9 They are joined to one another; they stick together and cannot be separated.

  • 12 so man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, people will not awake or be roused from their sleep.

  • 12 By his power he stilled the sea, and by his understanding he struck down Rahab.

  • 5 Because they do not consider the works of the LORD or the deeds of his hands, he will tear them down and never rebuild them.

  • 6 Sheol is naked before him; Abaddon has no covering.

  • 9 Man lays his hand on the hardest rock and overturns mountains from their roots.

  • 14 Strength resides in his neck, and terror dances in his presence.

  • 15 They lean on their house, but it does not stand; they grasp it, but it does not hold firm.

  • 17 For He crushes me with a tempest and multiplies my wounds without cause.

  • 13 But he is unchangeable; who can turn him back? He does what he desires.

  • 24 Surely one does not stretch out a hand in ruin or cry for help in disaster.

  • 14 With kings and counselors of the earth who built ruins for themselves.

  • 9 He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has made my paths crooked.

  • 19 The rich man lies down, but he will not be gathered; he opens his eyes, and he is no more.