Job 12:14

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

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 will shut, who shuts and no one opens.

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.

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, and they will be called ‘the wicked country,’ and ‘the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.’”

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 nothing, and the nations weary themselves only for fire.”

Job 37:7

He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he made may know it.

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 16:11

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

Job 11:10

If he passes through and imprisons and summons the court, who can turn him back?

1 Samuel 26:8

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

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,

Romans 11:32

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

Jeremiah 51:64

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

Isaiah 25:2

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

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,” declares the Lord of hosts.

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.

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 am the Lord; I have spoken, declares the Lord God.

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.

Ecclesiastes 7:13

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