'Shut' in the Bible

Now we know that whatever the law says speaks to those who are subject to the law, so that every mouth may be shut and the whole world may become subject to God’s judgment.

What reason, then, is there for pride? It is shut out. By what sort of law? of works? No, but by a law of faith.

for God did shut up together the whole to unbelief, that to the whole He might do kindness.