KJV King James Version
For it [is] a fire [that] consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
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Job 31:12
For it [is] a fire [that] consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For it is a fire that burns down to Abaddon; it would root out my entire harvest.
WEB World English Bible
For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.
ASV American Standard Version
For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For a fire it is, to destruction it consumeth, And among all mine increase doth take root,
Surrounding context — Job 31
9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or [if] I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;
10 [Then] let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
11 For this [is] an heinous crime; yea, it [is] an iniquity [to be punished by] the judges.
12 For it [is] a fire [that] consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
15 Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
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Proverbs 6:27Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?Jeremiah 5:7-9How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by [them that are] no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.Hebrews 13:4Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.Job 26:6Hell [is] naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.Job 20:28The increase of his house shall depart, [and his goods] shall flow away in the day of his wrath.Malachi 3:5And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in [his] wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger [from his right], and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.Job 15:30He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.Proverbs 3:33The curse of the LORD [is] in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.
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