Job 31:12
Good News Translation
It would be like a destructive, hellish fire, consuming everything I have.

New Revised Standard Version
for that would be a fire consuming down to Abaddon, and it would burn to the root all my harvest.

Contemporary English Version
sending me to destruction and my crops to the flames.

New American Bible
A fire that would consume down to Abaddon till it uprooted all my crops.

Douay-Rheims Bible
It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Job 31:11
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