Job 12:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

Job 12:14 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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;
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.
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.
Job 11:10
If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
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.

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Afflictions and Adversities Atheism Attributes of God Devotion God Guidance Lord Majesty

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-25)

This is a noble discourse of Job’s concerning the wisdom, power, and sovereignty of God, in ordering and disposing of all the affairs of the children of men, according to the counsel of his own will, which none dares gainsay or can resist. Take both him and them out of the controversy in which they were so warmly engaged, and they all spoke admirably well; but, in that, we sometimes scarcely know…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 14)

14. shutteth up--(Is 22:22). Job refers to Zophar’s “shut up” (Job 11:10).