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Read Full Chapter (Job 31) Job 31:12 KJV
"For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase."
Job Chapter 31, Verse 12
Job 31:12 in Context (Verses 9–15 KJV)
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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.
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For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
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For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
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If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
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What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
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Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?*