Job 31:12

Job chapter 31 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase.

Context

v.11For that were a heinous crime; Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

v.12This passage

v.13If I have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, When they contended with me;

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Hebrews 13:4

    Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

  • Jeremiah 5:7

    How can I pardon thee? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots’ houses;

  • Malachi 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 the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner from his right, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.

  • Job 15:30

    He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath ofGod’smouth shall he go away.

  • Job 26:6

    Sheol is naked beforeGod, And Abaddon hath no covering.

  • Proverbs 3:33

    The curse of Jehovah is in the house of the wicked; But he blesseth the habitation of the righteous.