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Job 31:12

Job 31:12
For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

If I did despise the cause of my manservant, or of my maidservant,.... Whether it was a cause that related to any controversy or quarrel among themselves when it was brought before him, he did not…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction - This may mean that such an offence would be a crime that would provoke God to send destruction, like a consuming fire upon the offender (Rosenmuller…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 31:9-15

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…