Job 12:14 “What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be r…”

Job 12:14

What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Beholde, he will breake downe, and it can not be built: he shutteth a man vp, and he can not be loosed.

Darby Translation

Behold, he breaketh down, and it is not built again; he shutteth up a man, and there is no opening.

Young's Literal Translation

Lo, He breaketh down, and it is not built up, He shutteth against a man, And it is not opened.

Bible in Basic English

Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.

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Cross references

“he breaketh”

Job 11:10 Malachi 1:4 Jeremiah 51:58 Isaiah 14:23 Jeremiah 51:64 Job 9:12

Job 11:10 · BSB

If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?

Malachi 1:4 · BSB

Though 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…

Jeremiah 51:58 · BSB

This 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.”

Isaiah 14:23 · BSB

“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.

Jeremiah 51:64 · BSB

Then 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.

Job 9:12 · BSB

If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’

“he shutteth”

Isaiah 22:22 Revelation 3:7 Job 16:11 1 Samuel 17:46 1 Samuel 26:8 1 Samuel 24:18

Isaiah 22:22 · BSB

I 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.

Revelation 3:7 · BSB

To 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.

Job 16:11 · BSB

God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.

1 Samuel 17:46 · BSB

This 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 Philistine army to the birds of the air and the creatures of the earth. Then the whole wo…

1 Samuel 26:8 · BSB

Abishai 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!”

1 Samuel 24:18 · BSB

And you have declared this day how you have treated me well, for when the LORD delivered me into your hand, you did not kill me.

Also

Job 37:7 Job 19:10 Isaiah 25:2

Job 37:7 · BSB

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

Job 19:10 · BSB

He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.

Isaiah 25:2 · BSB

Indeed, 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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

13Wisdom and strength belong to God; counsel and understanding are His.

15If He holds back the waters, they dry up, and if He releases them, they overwhelm the land.

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