Parallel Verses
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.
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].
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
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 31:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense Continued
11
For this is lewdness and iniquity that is proven.
12
And would
Cross References
Proverbs 6:27
Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned?
Job 15:30
He shall not escape from the darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth he shall perish.
Job 20:28
The increase of his house shall be taken captive; they shall be scattered in the day of his wrath.
Job 26:6
Sheol is naked before him, and hell has no covering.
Proverbs 3:33
The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked, but he shall bless the habitation of the just.
Jeremiah 5:7-9
How shall I pardon thee for this? Thy sons have forsaken me and sworn by them that are not gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near unto you for 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 do not fear me, said the LORD of the hosts.
Hebrews 13:4
Let marriage be honourable in all and the bed undefiled; but the fornicators and adulterers God will judge.