Job 31:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For it is a fire that burns down to Abaddon; it would root out my entire harvest.”
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“For it is a fire that burns down to Abaddon; it would root out my entire harvest.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“For a fire it <FI>is<Fi> , to destruction it consumeth, And among all mine increase doth take root,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 31:12 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 15:30He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.
- Job 20:28The possessions of his house will be removed, flowing away on the day of God’s wrath.
- Job 26:6Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
- Proverbs 3:33The curse of the LORD is on the house of the wicked, but He blesses the home of the righteous.
- Proverbs 6:27Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?
- Jeremiah 5:7“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.
- Malachi 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- Hebrews 13:4Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
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