Job 12:14

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 22:22 : 22 And I have placed the key Of the house of David on his shoulder, And he hath opened, and none is shutting, And hath shut, and none is opening.
  • Rev 3:7 : 7 `And to the messenger of the assembly in Philadelphia write: These things saith he who is holy, he who is true, he who is having the key of David, he who is opening and no one doth shut, and he shutteth and no one doth open!
  • Mal 1:4 : 4 Because Edom saith, `We have been made poor, And we turn back and we build the wastes,' Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: They do build, and I do destroy, And `men' have called to them, `O region of wickedness,' `O people whom Jehovah defied to the age.'
  • Job 11:10 : 10 If He pass on, and shut up, and assemble, Who then dost reverse it?
  • Job 16:11 : 11 God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over.
  • Job 19:10 : 10 He breaketh me down round about, and I go, And removeth like a tree my hope.
  • Job 37:7 : 7 Into the hand of every man he sealeth, For the knowledge by all men of His work.
  • Isa 14:23 : 23 And have made it for a possession of a bittern, And ponds of waters, And daubed it with the mire of destruction, The affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts!
  • 1 Sam 17:46 : 46 This day doth Jehovah shut thee up into my hand -- and I have smitten thee, and turned aside thy head from off thee, and given the carcase of the camp of the Philistines this day to the fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth, and all the earth do know that God is for Israel.
  • 1 Sam 24:18 : 18 and thou hast declared to-day how that thou hast done good with me, how that Jehovah shut me up into thy hand, and thou didst not slay me,
  • 1 Sam 26:8 : 8 And Abishai saith unto David, `God hath shut up to-day thine enemy into thy hand; and, now, let me smite him, I pray thee, with a spear, even into the earth at once -- and I do repeat `it' to him.'
  • Job 9:12-13 : 12 Lo, He snatches away, who bringeth it back? Who saith unto Him, `What dost Thou?' 13 God doth not turn back His anger, Under Him bowed have proud helpers.
  • Rom 11:32 : 32 for God did shut up together the whole to unbelief, that to the whole He might do kindness.
  • Isa 25:2 : 2 For Thou didst make of a city a heap, Of a fenced city a ruin, A high place of strangers from `being' a city, To the age it is not built.
  • Jer 51:58 : 58 Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, the wall of Babylon -- The broad one -- is utterly made bare, And her high gates with fire are burnt, And peoples labour in vain, And nations in fire, and have been weary!
  • Jer 51:64 : 64 and said, Thus sink doth Babylon, and it doth not arise, because of the evil that I am bringing in against it, and they have been weary.' Hitherto `are' words of Jeremiah.

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    21Pouring contempt upon princes, And the girdle of the mighty He made feeble.

    22Removing deep things out of darkness, And He bringeth out to light death-shade.

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    17He hath made the world as a wilderness, And his cities he hath broken down, Of his bound ones he opened not the house.

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    14And He hath broken it As the breaking of the potters' bottle, Beaten down -- He doth not spare, Nor is there found, in its beating down, A potsherd to take fire from the burning, And to draw out waters from a ditch.

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