Parallel Verses
Amplified
“For it is a fire which consumes to Abaddon (destruction, ruin, final torment);
And [illicit passion] would burn and rage and uproot all my [life’s] increase [destroying everything].
New American Standard Bible
And would
King James Version
For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
Holman Bible
it would destroy my entire harvest.
International Standard Version
The fires of Abaddon will burn, disrupting every part of my eternal reward."
A Conservative Version
For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.
American Standard Version
For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase.
Bible in Basic English
It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce.
Darby Translation
For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
Julia Smith Translation
For it is a fire; it will devour even to destruction, and will root out upon all mine increase.
King James 2000
For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Indeed, that [is] a fire that will consume up to Abaddon, and it would uproot all my crop.
Modern King James verseion
For it is a fire that devours to the Place of Ruin, and it would root out all my gain.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
yea, a fire that utterly should consume, and root out all my substance.
NET Bible
For it is a fire that devours even to Destruction, and it would uproot all my harvest.
New Heart English Bible
For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.
The Emphasized Bible
Surely, a fire, had that been, which, unto destruction, would have consumed, and, of all mine increase, had it torn up the root.
Webster
For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all my increase.
World English Bible
For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.
Youngs Literal Translation
For a fire it is, to destruction it consumeth, And among all mine increase doth take root,
Interlinear
'esh
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 31:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense Continued
11
“For adultery is a heinous and lustful crime;
Moreover, it would be a sin punishable by the judges.
“For it is a fire which consumes to Abaddon (destruction, ruin, final torment);
And [illicit passion] would burn and rage and uproot all my [life’s] increase [destroying everything].
“If I have despised and rejected the claim of my male or female servants
When they filed a complaint against me,
Cross References
Proverbs 6:27
Can a man take fire to his chest
And his clothes not be burned?
Job 15:30
“He will not escape from darkness [fleeing disaster];
The flame [of God’s wrath] will wither his branch,
And by the blast of His mouth he will go away.
Job 20:28
“The produce and increase of his house will depart [with the victors];
His possessions will be dragged away in the day of God’s wrath.
Job 26:6
“Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) is naked before God,
And Abaddon (the place of destruction) has no covering [from His eyes].
Proverbs 3:33
The curse of the Lord is on the house of the wicked,
But He blesses the home of the just and righteous.
Jeremiah 5:7-9
“Why should I [overlook these offenses and] forgive you?
Your children have abandoned (rejected) Me
And sworn [their oaths] by those who are not gods.
When I had fed them until they were full [and bound them to Me by a promise],
They committed [spiritual] adultery,
Assembling in troops at the houses of prostitutes (idols).
Malachi 3:5
“Then I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, against adulterers, against perjurers, and against those who oppress the laborer in his wages and widows and the fatherless, and against those who turn away the alien [from his right], and those who do not fear Me [with awe-filled reverence],” says the Lord of hosts.
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage is to be held in honor among all [that is, regarded as something of great value], and the marriage bed undefiled [by immorality or by any sexual sin]; for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.