Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

Lo! He pulleth down, and it cannot be built, He closeth up over a man, and it cannot be opened:

New American Standard Bible

“Behold, He tears down, and it cannot be rebuilt;
He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Whatever He tears down cannot be rebuilt;
whoever He imprisons cannot be released.

International Standard Version

When he tears down, nobody rebuilds; when he incarcerates, nobody escapes.

A Conservative Version

Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again. He shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


“Behold, He tears down, and it cannot be rebuilt;
He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

Bible in Basic English

Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

Behold, he will pull down and it shall not be built up: he will shut up against man and it shall not be opened.

King James 2000

Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again: he shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.

Lexham Expanded Bible

If he tears down, then it will not be rebuilt; if he shuts a man in, then he cannot be freed.

Modern King James verseion

Behold, He breaks down, and it can not be built up again; He shuts up a man, and no one opens.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

If he break down a thing, who can set it up again? If he shut a thing, who will open it?

NET Bible

If he tears down, it cannot be rebuilt; if he imprisons a person, there is no escape.

New Heart English Bible

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

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
and it cannot be built again
בּנה 
Banah 
Usage: 376

he shutteth up
סגר 
Cagar 
Usage: 93

a man
אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 692

Context Readings

If You Want To Learn

13 With Him, are wisdom and strength, to Him, pertain counsel and understanding. 14 Lo! He pulleth down, and it cannot be built, He closeth up over a man, and it cannot be opened: 15 Lo! He holdeth back the waters, and they dry up, or sendeth them out, and they transform the earth:

Cross References

Job 11:10

If he sweep on, or shut up, or call together, Who then shall hinder him?

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 shut and none shall open;

Revelation 3:7

And, unto the messenger of the assembly, 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 one shall shut, and shutteth and no one openeth:

1 Samuel 17:46

This day, will Yahweh deliver thee into my hand, and I will smite thee, and take thy head from off thee, and will give thy dead body and the dead bodies of the host of Philistines, this day, unto the birds of heaven, and unto the wild beasts of the earth, - that all the earth may know that Israel hath a God;

1 Samuel 24:18

Thou, then, hast told to-day, how thou hast dealt with me, for good, - how, when Yahweh had surrendered me into thy hand, thou didst not slay me.

1 Samuel 26:8

Then said Abishai unto David, God hath surrendered, to-day, thine enemy, into thy hand: Now, therefore, let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear to the earth, at one stroke, I, will not do it twice.

Job 9:12-13

Lo! he snatcheth away, who can bring it back? Who shall say unto him, What wouldst thou do?

Job 16:11

GOD doth abandon me to him that is perverse, and, into the hands of the lawless, he throweth me headlong.

Job 19:10

He hath ruined me on every side, and I am gone, and he hath taken away - like a tree - my hope;

Job 37:7

On the hand of every man, he setteth a seal, that all men may take note of his doing.

Isaiah 14:23

And will make her a possession for the bittern, And marshes of water, - And will sweep it with the besom of destruction, Declareth Yahweh of hosts.

Isaiah 25:2

For thou hast made, of a citadel, a mound, of a defenced city, a ruin, - palaces for foreigners to be no city, To times age-abiding, shall it not be built.

Jeremiah 51:58

Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts - The broad walls of Babylon, shall be laid utterly bare, And, her lofty gates, with fire, shall be burned, - And peoples shall labour for emptiness, And populations, for the fire, shall weary themselves.

Jeremiah 51:64

Then shalt thou say, - In like manner, shall Babylon sink and not rise Because of the calamity which I am about to bring thereupon: So shall they perish. Thus far, are, the words of Jeremiah.

Malachi 1:4

Whereas Edom, may say, We are laid waste, but we will again build the desolate places, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, They, may build, but, I, will pull down, - and men shall call them, The Boundary of Lawlessness, and, The people with whom Yahweh hath indignation unto times age-abiding;

Romans 11:32

For God hath shut up all together, in a refusal to yield, in order that, upon all, he may bestow mercy.

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