Job 31:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

Job 31:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 6:27
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
Jeremiah 5:7-9
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. …
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Job 15:30
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.
Job 20:28
The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

Topics

Adultery Afflictions and Adversities Commandments Conscience Conscientiousness Copulation Crime Cupidity

Commentary

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

9-12. Job asserts his innocence of adultery. deceived--hath let itself be seduced (Pr 7:8; Ge 39:7-12). laid wait--until the husband went out.