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Job 31

Job 31:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For it is a fire
'esh (Hebrew #784)
fire (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: burning, fiery, fire, flaming, hot.
Pronounce: aysh
Origin: a primitive word
that consumeth
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
to destruction
'abaddown (Hebrew #11)
abstract, a perishing; concrete, Hades
KJV usage: destruction.
Pronounce: ab-ad-done'
Origin: intensive from 6
u, and would root out
sharash (Hebrew #8327)
to root, i.e. strike into the soil, or (by implication) to pluck from it
KJV usage: (take, cause to take) root (out).
Pronounce: shaw-rash'
Origin: a primitive root
all mine increase
tbuw'ah (Hebrew #8393)
income, i.e. produce (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: fruit, gain, increase, revenue.
Pronounce: teb-oo-aw'
Origin: from 935
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Mal. 3:5• 5And I will come near to you to 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 fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts. (Mal. 3:5)
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Heb. 13:4• 4Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. (Heb. 13:4)

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Destruction,
Fire

Cross References

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Prov. 3:33• 33The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just. (Prov. 3:33)
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Prov. 6:27• 27Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? (Prov. 6:27)
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Jer. 5:7‑9• 7How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
 8They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbor's wife.
 9Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? (Jer. 5:7‑9)
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Mal. 3:5• 5And I will come near to you to 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 fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts. (Mal. 3:5)
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Heb. 13:4• 4Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. (Heb. 13:4)

J. N. Darby Translation

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