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Job 31:12

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31:12For it is a fire that devours even to Destruction,20

and it would uproot21 all my harvest.

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Footnotes

  1. 20 Heb “to Abaddon.”
  2. 21 The verb means “to root out,” but this does not fit the parallelism with fire. Wright changed two letters and the vowels in the verb to get the root צָרַף (tsaraf, “to burn”). The has “burn to the root.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

for that would be a fire that consumes as far as Abaddon,

and it would burn to the root all my increase.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

It is a fire that burns to Destruction;

it would have uprooted my harvest.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

For it is a fire that consumes down to Abaddon;

it would destroy my entire harvest.

NLTNew Living Translation

It is a fire that burns all the way to hell.

It would wipe out everything I own.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Indeed, that is a fire that will consume up to Abaddon,

and it would uproot all my crop.

KJV 1900King James Version

For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction,

And would root out all mine increase.