Job 12:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ If he tears down, no one can rebuild; if he shuts someone in, no one can open up.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ Behold, He tears down, and it cannot be built again; He shuts a man in, and none can open.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ If he tears down, it can’t be rebuilt; if he ties a person up, he can’t be set free.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ If he tears down, there is no one who can build up; if he encloses a man, there is no one who can open.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ If he pull down, there is no man that can build up. If he shut up a man, there is none that can open.

Job 12:14 Cross References

Genesis 7:16

And those that entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded him, and the Lord shut him in.

Job 11:10

If he passes through and imprisons and assembles for judgment, who can hinder him?

Job 16:11

God gives me up to the evil and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

Job 19:10

He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; he has uprooted my hope like a tree.

Job 37:7

serves as a sign on everyone’s hand, so that all whom he has made may know it.

Ecclesiastes 7:13

Consider the work of God; who can make straight what he has made crooked?

Isaiah 14:23

And I will make it a possession of the screech owl and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 22:22

I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David; he shall open, and no one shall shut; he shall shut, and no one shall open.

Isaiah 25:2

For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the palace of foreigners is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.

Jeremiah 51:58

Thus says the Lord of hosts: The broad wall of Babylon shall be leveled to the ground, and her high gates shall be burned with fire. The peoples exhaust themselves for nothing, the nations only for fire, and they have become weary.

Jeremiah 51:64

and say, ‘Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no more, because of the disasters that I am bringing on her.’ ” Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

Ezekiel 26:14

I will make you a bare rock; you shall be a place for spreading nets. You shall never again be rebuilt, for I the Lord have spoken, says the Lord God.

Malachi 1:4

If Edom says, ‘We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins,’ the Lord of hosts says: They may build, but I will tear down, until they are called the wicked country, the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.

Romans 11:32

For God has imprisoned all in disobedience so that he may be merciful to all.

Revelation 3:7

“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the Holy One, the True One, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens:

1 Samuel 17:46

This very day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head, and I will give the dead bodies of the Philistine army this very day to the birds of the air and to the wild animals of the earth, so that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel

1 Samuel 24:18

Today you have explained how you have dealt well with me, in that you did not kill me when the Lord put me into your hands.

1 Samuel 26:8

Abishai said to David, “God has given your enemy into your hand today; now, therefore, let me pin him to the ground with one stroke of the spear; I will not strike him twice.”