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Job 31:12 — King James Version← Study notes

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


Job 31:12Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 31:129 words
HebrewMeaning
כִּ֤יkiy
forconjH3588
+ (forasmuch · inasmuch · where-) as · assured ···
אֵ֣שׁʾēš
is a firenounH784
fiery · fire · flaming · hot
הִ֭יאhiyʾ
thatprepH1931
as for her · him · it · the same ···
עַדʿad
which topronH5704
and · as · at · before ···
אֲבַדּ֣וֹןʾăbadwōn
AbaddonnounH11
תֹּאכֵ֑לtōʾkēl
it will devourverbH398
at all · consume · devour(-er · up) ···
וּֽ/בְ/כָלwbəkāl
and allconjH3605
) · altogether · any · enough ···
תְּב֖וּאָתִ֣/יtəbwʾātiy
produce mynounH8393
gain · increase · revenue
תְשָׁרֵֽשׁtəšārēš
it will root upverbH8327
cause to take) root
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Job 31:12

For this is an heinous crime; and the chiefest iniquity. For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and that rooteth out all increase. There is this difference between ‘sin’ and ‘crime,’ that all crime is sin, but not all sin is crime. And in this life there are numbers without crime, but no one can be without sins. And hence the holy preacher, when he was describing a man worthy of the grace of the priesthood, never said, ‘if any be without sin,’ but if any be without…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 21 §19
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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