Job 12:14

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

Behold, He breaks down, and it is not built up, || He shuts against a man, || And it is not opened.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

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

GNV

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

JPS

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

LXXE

If he should cast down, who will build up? if he should shut up against men, who shall open?

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WLC

הֵ֣ן יַ֭הֲרוֹס וְלֹ֣א יִבָּנֶ֑ה יִסְגֹּ֥ר עַל־אִ֝֗ישׁ וְלֹ֣א יִפָּתֵֽחַ׃

LXX-Br

Ἐὰν καταβάλῃ, τίς οἰκοδομήσει; ἐὰν κλείσῃ κατʼ ἀνθρώπων, τίς ἀνοίξει;

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• Isaiah 22:22I 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 3:7To 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 11:10If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?
• Malachi 1:4Though 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…
• Job 19:10He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.
• Jeremiah 51:58This 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.”
• 1 Samuel 26:8Abishai 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!”
• Job 9:12–13If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’ God does not restrain His anger; the helpers of Rahab cower beneath Him.
• Job 16:11God has delivered me to unjust men; He has thrown me to the clutches of the wicked.
• Job 37:7He seals up the hand of every man, so that all men may know His work.
• 1 Samuel 17:46This 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 Philistines to the birds of the air and the creatures of the earth. Then the whole…
• Isaiah 25:2Indeed, 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.
• Romans 11:32For God has consigned everyone to disobedience so that He may have mercy on everyone.
• Isaiah 14:23“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.
• 1 Samuel 24:18And you have shown this day how well you have dealt with me; for when the LORD delivered me into your hand, you did not kill me.
• Jeremiah 51:64Then 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.

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