Job 12:14
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.”
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“What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Lo, He breaketh down, and it is not built up, He shutteth against a man, And it is not opened.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 12:14 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 7:16And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
- 1 Samuel 17:46This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand. This day I will strike you down, cut off your head, and give the carcasses of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the creatures of the earth. Then the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.
- 1 Samuel 24:18And you have shown this day how well you have dealt with me; for when the LORD delivered me into your hand, you did not kill me.
- 1 Samuel 26:8Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Now, therefore, please let me thrust the spear through him into the ground with one stroke. I will not need to strike him twice!”
- Job 9:12If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’
- Job 11:10If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?
- Job 16:11God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
- Job 19:10He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.
- Job 37:7He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work.
- Ecclesiastes 7:13Consider the work of God: Who can straighten what He has bent?
- Isaiah 14:23“I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
- Isaiah 22:22I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.
- Isaiah 25:2Indeed, You have made the city a heap of rubble, the fortified town a ruin. The fortress of strangers is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.
- Jeremiah 51:58This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”
- Jeremiah 51:64Then you are to say, ‘In the same way Babylon will sink and never rise again, because of the disaster I will bring upon her. And her people will grow weary.’” Here end the words of Jeremiah.
- Malachi 1:4Though Edom may say, “We have been devastated, but we will rebuild the ruins,” this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “They may build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Land of Wickedness, and a people with whom the LORD is indignant forever.
- Romans 11:32For God has consigned everyone to disobedience so that He may have mercy on everyone.
- Revelation 3:7To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the One who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What He opens no one can shut, and what He shuts no one can open.
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