Job 31:12
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It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring.

Proverbs 3:33 He shall scorn the scorners, and to the meek he will give grace.

Proverbs 6:27 Or can he walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be burnt?

Jeremiah 5:7-9 How can I be merciful to thee? thy children have forsaken me, and swear by them that are not gods: I fed them to the full, and they committed adultery, and rioted in the harlot's house. . . .

Malachi 3:5 And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.

Hebrews 13:4 Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Context
Job's Final Appeal
11For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity. 12It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring.13If I have despised to abide judgment with my manservant, or my maidservant, when they had any controversy against me:…
Cross References
Revelation 9:11
A king, the angel of the bottomless pit (whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek Apollyon, in Latin Exterminans).

Job 15:30
He shall not depart out of darkness: the flame shall dry up his branches, and he shall be taken away by the breath of his own mouth.

Job 20:28
The offspring of his house shall be exposed, he shall be pulled down in the day of God's wrath.

Job 26:6
Hell is naked before him, and there is no covering for destruction.

Job 31:8
Then let me sow and let another reap: and let my offspring be rooted out.

Lexicon
For
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

it
הִ֭יא (hî)
Pronoun - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

is a fire
אֵ֣שׁ (’êš)
Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 784: A fire

that burns
תֹּאכֵ֑ל (tō·ḵêl)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 398: To eat

down to
עַד־ (‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

Abaddon;
אֲבַדּ֣וֹן (’ă·ḇad·dō·wn)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 11: Abaddon -- (place of) destruction or ruin, Abaddon

it would root out
תְשָׁרֵֽשׁ׃ (ṯə·šā·rêš)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8327: To root, strike into the soil, to pluck from it

my entire
וּֽבְכָל־ (ū·ḇə·ḵāl)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

harvest.
תְּב֖וּאָתִ֣י (tə·ḇū·’ā·ṯî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 8393: Product, revenue


Additional Translations
For it is a fire that burns down to Abaddon; it would root out my entire harvest.For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.

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

For it is a fire burning on every side, and whomsoever it attacks, it utterly destroys.

For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

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

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

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

For a fire it is, to destruction it consumeth, And among all mine increase doth take root,
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