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- Chapter 31
- Verse 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…
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…
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