Job 12:14

World English Bible (2000)

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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  • Isa 22:22 : 22 I will lay the key of the house of David on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open.
  • Rev 3:7 : 7 "To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: "He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
  • Mal 1:4 : 4 Whereas Edom says, "We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;" thus says Yahweh of Armies, "They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them 'The Wicked Land,' even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever."
  • Job 11:10 : 10 If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?
  • Job 16:11 : 11 God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
  • Job 19:10 : 10 He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. My hope he has plucked up like a tree.
  • Job 37:7 : 7 He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he has made may know it.
  • Isa 14:23 : 23 "I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," says Yahweh of Armies.
  • 1 Sam 17:46 : 46 Today, Yahweh 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 this day 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 Sam 24:18 : 18 You have declared this day how you have dealt well with me, because when Yahweh had delivered me up into your hand, you didn't kill me.
  • 1 Sam 26:8 : 8 Then Abishai said to David, "God has delivered up your enemy into your hand this day. 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 9:12-13 : 12 Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?' 13 "God will not withdraw his anger. The helpers of Rahab stoop under him.
  • Rom 11:32 : 32 For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.
  • Isa 25:2 : 2 For you have made a city into a heap, a fortified city into a ruin, a palace of strangers to be no city. It will never be built.
  • Jer 51:58 : 58 Thus says Yahweh of Armies: 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 you shall say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring on 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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    15Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

    16With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.

    17He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.

  • Job 11:10-11
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    10If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

    11For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn't consider it.

  • 13"With God is wisdom and might. He has counsel and understanding.

  • 12Behold, he snatches away. Who can hinder him? Who will ask him, 'What are you doing?'

  • 14He breaks me with breach on breach. He runs on me like a giant.

  • Job 34:24-25
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    24He breaks in pieces mighty men in ways past finding out, and sets others in their place.

    25Therefore he takes knowledge of their works. He overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

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

    20He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

    21He pours contempt on princes, and loosens the belt of the strong.

    22He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

    23He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.

    24He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

  • 3Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

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

  • 22Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.

  • 17who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; who didn't release his prisoners to their home?"

  • Job 9:4-5
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    4God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?

    5He removes the mountains, and they don't know it, when he overturns them in his anger.

  • 14He will break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won't be found among the broken piece a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."

  • 11He binds the streams that they don't trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings forth to light.

  • Job 14:18-19
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    18"But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place;

    19The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.

  • 29When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? Alike whether to a nation, or to a man,

  • 28He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

  • 8He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

  • 16For he has broken the gates of brass, and cut through bars of iron.

  • 15Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

  • 7The steps of his strength shall be shortened. His own counsel shall cast him down.

  • 13Beware lest you say, 'We have found wisdom, God may refute him, not man;'

  • 9who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the fortress.

  • 11"For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits.

  • 5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can't pass;

  • 9Behold, the hope of him is in vain. Won't one be cast down even at the sight of him?

  • 12so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

  • 12He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.

  • 5Because they don't respect the works of Yahweh, nor the operation of his hands, he will break them down and not build them up.

  • 6Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

  • 9He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.

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

  • 15He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.

  • 17For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

  • 13But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

  • 24"However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

  • 14with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

  • 9He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.

  • 19He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.