Job 31:12
What does Job 31:12 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 31:12 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase.
KJV
King James Version · 1611For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862For a fire it <FI>is<Fi> , to destruction it consumeth, And among all mine increase doth take root,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
Context
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.
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