Job 31:12
for it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.
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Cross references
- Proverbs 6:27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned?
- Jeremiah 5:7–9 “How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses. They were as fed horses roaming at large. Everyone neighed after his neighbor’s wife. Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
- Job 15:30 He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.