Job 12:14
Good News Translation
When God tears down, who can rebuild, and who can free those God imprisons?

New Revised Standard Version
If he tears down, no one can rebuild; if he shuts someone in, no one can open up.

Contemporary English Version
No one can rebuild what he destroys, or release those he has imprisoned.

New American Bible
If he knocks a thing down, there is no rebuilding; if he imprisons, there is no release.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If he pull down, there is no man that can build up: if he shut up a man, there is none that can open.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

he breaketh

Job 9:12,13 If he examine on a sudden, who shall answer him? or who can say: Why dost thou so? . . .

Job 11:10 If he shall overturn all things, or shall press them together, who shall contradict him?

Isaiah 14:23 And I will make it a possession for the ericius and pools of waters, and I will sweep it and wear it out with a besom, saith the Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 51:58,64 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: That broad wall of Babylon shall be utterly broken down, and her high gates shall be burnt with fire, and the labours of the people shall come to nothing, and of the nations shall go to the fire, and shall perish. . . .

Malachi 1:4 But if Edom shall say: We are destroyed, but we will return and build up what hath been destroyed: thus saith the Lord of hosts: They shall build up, and I will throw down: and they shall be called the borders of wickedness, and the people with whom the Lord is angry for ever.

he shutteth

Job 16:11 God hath shut me up with the unjust man, and hath delivered me into the hands of the wicked.

1 Samuel 17:46 This day, and the Lord will deliver thee into my hand, and I will slay thee, and take away thy head from thee: and I will give the carcasses of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air, and to the 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 what good things thou hast done to me: how the Lord delivered me into thy hand, and thou hast not killed me.

1 Samuel 26:8 And Abisai said to David: God hath shut up thy enemy this day into thy hands: now then I will run him through with my spear, even to the earth at once, and there shall be no need of a second time.

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Isaiah 22:22 And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his shoulder: and he shall open, and none shall shut: and he shall shut, and none shall open.

Romans 11:32 For God hath concluded all in unbelief, that he may have mercy on all.

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Revelation 3:7 And to the angel of the church of Philadelphia write: These things saith the Holy One and the true one, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and no man shutteth, shutteth and no man openeth:

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Context
Job Responds to Zophar
13With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding. 14If he pull down, there is no man that can build up: if he shut up a man, there is none that can open.15If he withhold the waters, all things shall be dried up: and if he send them out, they shall overturn the earth.…
Cross References
Revelation 3:7
And to the angel of the church of Philadelphia write: These things saith the Holy One and the true one, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and no man shutteth, shutteth and no man openeth:

Job 19:10
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and he hath taken away my hope, as from a tree that is plucked up.

Job 37:7
He sealeth up the hand of all men, that every one may know his works.

Isaiah 22:22
And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his shoulder: and he shall open, and none shall shut: and he shall shut, and none shall open.

Isaiah 25:2
For thou hast reduced the city to a heap, the strong city to ruin, the house of strangers, to be no city, and to be no more built up for ever.

Ezekiel 26:14
And I will make thee like a naked rock, thou shalt be a drying place for nets, neither shalt thou be built any more: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

Job 12:13
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