Job 31:12
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.
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?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For it is a fire that burns down to Abaddon; it would root out my entire harvest.
- KJV
- For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
- WEB
- for it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.
- ASV
- For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase.
- DARBY
- For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
- BLB
- For it is a fire [that] devours unto Abaddon, and it would uproot among all my produce.
- ÅB
- det er en ild som fortærer like til avgrunnen; alt mitt gods skulle den gjøre ende på.
- OTB
- For det ville være en ild som fortærer til ødeleggelse,
Og ville rykke opp all min økning. - B1930
- det er en ild som fortærer like til avgrunnen; alt mitt gods skulde den gjøre ende på.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 6:27
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
Read in contextJeremiah 5:7–9
How 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.
Read in contextHebrews 13:4
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Read in contextJob 26:6
Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
Read in contextJob 20:28
The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
Read in contextProverbs 3:33
The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.
Read in contextJob 15:30
He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
Read in contextMalachi 3:5
And 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.
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