Job 12:14 KJV
Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
Matthew Henry
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Thompson Chains
- OmnipotenceSee the chain from Job 42:2 · 9 links
- Sovereignty of GodSee the chain from Deuteronomy 4:39 · 13 links
Parallel Passages
- Job 19:10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
- Revelation 3:7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
From Thompson’s Chain-Reference Bible (1908).
Cross References
- Isaiah 22:22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
- Revelation 3:7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
- Job 11:10 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
- Job 16:11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.
- Job 19:10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
- Job 37:7 He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.
- Malachi 1:4 Whereas Edom saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.
- 1 Samuel 17:46 This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls 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 thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the LORD had delivered me into thine hand, thou killedst me not.
- 1 Samuel 26:8 Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.
- Job 9:12–13 Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou? …
- Isaiah 14:23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
- Isaiah 25:2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
- Jeremiah 51:58 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
- Jeremiah 51:64 And thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her: and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.
- Romans 11:32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
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Topics
- Afflictions and adversities Dispensation of God
- Atheism Arguments against
- God Unclassified scriptures relating to
- Job Complaints of, and replies by his three friends to
- Philosophy Philosophical inductions and deductions relating to God and His providence
- Religion Natural
Hebrew and Strong’s
- Behold, he breaketh down הֵן hēn Demonstrative יַהֲרוֹס yahărôs הָרַס Verb · qal imperfect, third person masculine singular
- and it cannot be built again וְלֹא wĕlōʾ Negative · with and יִבָּנֶה yibbānê בָּנָה Verb · niphal imperfect, third person masculine singular
- he shutteth up יִסְגֹּר yisgōr סָגַר Verb · qal imperfect, third person masculine singular
- a man עַל ʿal Preposition אִישׁ ʾîš אִישׁ Noun · masculine singular
- and there can be no opening וְלֹא wĕlōʾ Negative · with and יִפָּתֵחַ yippātēaḥ פָּתַח Verb · niphal imperfect, third person masculine singular
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