🌪️WEB · Job 31:12
What does Job 31:12 mean?
"For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase."
— Job 31:12 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
“If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,
then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.
For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges:
For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.
“If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;
What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?
Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?
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