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Job 31:12

American Standard Version

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

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Job 31:12 in other translations

for it is a fire that consumes to destruction,
and would root out all my increase.

Job 31:12 · World English Bible

Job 31:12 in context

  1. 10Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her.
  2. 11For that were a heinous crime; Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:
  3. 12For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase.
  4. 13If I have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, When they contended with me;
  5. 14What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?