Job 12:14 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁴ If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.

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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.

Job 12:14 Cross References

Genesis 7:16

And they 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 calls to judgment, who can hinder him?

Job 16:11

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

Job 19:10

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

Job 37:7

He seals up the hand of every man, that all men may know his work.

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 hedgehog, and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the Lord of hosts.”

Isaiah 22:22

And I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David; he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.

Isaiah 25:2

For thou hast made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the palace of aliens 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 labor for naught, and the nations weary themselves only for fire.”

Jeremiah 51:64

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

Ezekiel 26:14

I will make you a bare rock; you shall be a place for the spreading of nets; you shall never 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, till they are called the wicked country, the people with whom the Lord is angry for ever.”

Romans 11:32

For God has consigned all men to disobedience, that he may have mercy upon all.

Revelation 3:7

“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one shall shut, who shuts and no one opens.

1 Samuel 17:46

This 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 host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,

1 Samuel 24:18

And you have declared this day 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

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