Job 31:12
For it is a fire that consumes to destruction,and would root out all my increase.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
In Context
11For that would be a heinous crime.Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges:
13"If I have despised the cause of my male servantor of my female servant,when they contended with me;
Cross References
Job 20:28The increase of his house shall depart.They shall rush away in the day of his wrath.
Proverbs 3:33The Lord's curse is in the house of the wicked,but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.
Jeremiah 5:7"How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes' houses.
Hebrews 13:4Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Matthew Henry on Job 31:10-16
9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; 10 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. 11 For this is a heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges. 12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase. 13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; 14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I… Read the whole commentary →