Job 31:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² for that would be a fire consuming down to Abaddon, and it would burn to the root all my harvest.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² For [uncontrolled passion] is a fire which consumes to Abaddon (to destruction, ruin, and the place of final torment); [that fire once lighted would rage until all is consumed] and would burn to the root all my [life's] increase.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase.

Common English Bible

¹² indeed, it’s a fire that consumes to the underworld, uprooting all my harvest.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² It is a fire devouring all the way to perdition, and it roots out all that springs forth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring.

Job 31:12 Cross References

Job 15:30

they will not escape from darkness; the flame will dry up their shoots, and their blossom will be swept away by the wind.

Job 20:28

The possessions of their house will be carried away, dragged off in the day of God’s wrath.

Job 26:6

Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.

Job 31:8

then let me sow and another eat, and let what grows for me be rooted out.

Proverbs 3:33

The Lord’s curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the abode of the righteous.

Proverbs 6:27

Can fire be carried in the bosom without burning one’s clothes?

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow, and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honor by all, and let the marriage bed be kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Revelation 9:11

They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit; his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.