Job 31:12 · KJV
“For it {is} a fire {that} consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.”
— Job 31:12
For this {is} an heinous crime; yea, it {is} an iniquity {to be punished by} the judges.
If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
Job 31 — Context
{Then} let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
11For this {is} an heinous crime; yea, it {is} an iniquity {to be punished by} the judges.
12For it {is} a fire {that} consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
13If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
14What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
Cross References
Proverbs 6:27
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
Jeremiah 5:7-9
How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by {them that are} no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
Job 26:6
Hell {is} naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
Job 20:28
The increase of his house shall depart, {and his goods} shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage {is} honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Proverbs 3:33
The curse of the LORD {is} in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.
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 false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in {his} wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger {from his right}, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. {oppress: or, defraud}
Job 15:30
He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.