12For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
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Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
How 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. …
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-15)Two more instances we have here of Job’s integrity:— I. That he had a very great abhorrence of the sin of adultery. As he did not wrong his own marriage bed by keeping a concubine (he did not so much as think upon a maid, Job 31:1), so he was careful not to offer any injury to his neighbour’s marriage bed. Let us see here, 1. How clear he was from this sin, Job 31:9. (1.) He did not so much as cov…
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