Job 31:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 6:27 : 27 May a man take fire to his breast without burning his clothing?
  • Jer 5:7-9 : 7 How is it possible for you to have my forgiveness for this? your children have given me up, taking their oaths by those who are no gods: when I had given them food in full measure, they were false to their wives, taking their pleasure in the houses of loose women. 8 They were full of desire, like horses after a meal of grain: everyone went after his neighbour's wife. 9 Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.
  • Job 15:30 : 30 He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.
  • Job 20:28 : 28 The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath.
  • Job 26:6 : 6 The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.
  • Prov 3:33 : 33 The curse of the Lord is on the house of the evil-doer, but his blessing is on the tent of the upright.

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    11 For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges:

  • Job 31:8
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    8 Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted.

  • Isa 9:18
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    18 For evil was burning like a fire; the blackberries and thorns were burned up; the thick woods took fire, rolling up in dark clouds of smoke.

  • Job 22:20
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    20 Saying, Truly, their substance is cut off, and their wealth is food for the fire.

  • Deut 32:22
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    22 For my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep parts of the underworld, burning up the earth with her increase, and firing the deep roots of the mountains.

  • Ezek 21:31
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    31 And I will let loose my burning passion on you, breathing out on you the fire of my wrath: and I will give you up into the hands of men like beasts, trained to destruction.

  • Ezek 22:31
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    31 And I let loose my passion on them, and have put an end to them in the fire of my wrath: I have made the punishment of their ways come on their heads, says the Lord.

  • Job 31:38-39
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    38 If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;

    39 If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;

  • Ps 21:9-10
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    74%

    9 You will make them like a flaming oven before you; the Lord in his wrath will put an end to them, and they will be burned up in the fire.

    10 Their fruit will be cut off from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.

  • Job 31:29
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    29 If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;

  • Ps 80:16
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    16 It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.

  • Heb 12:29
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    29 For our God is an all-burning fire.

  • Lam 1:13
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    13 From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

  • Job 19:11
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    11 His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.

  • Job 31:3
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    3 Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers?

  • 2 Sam 14:7
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    7 And now all the family is turned against me, your servant, saying, Give up him who was the cause of his brother's death, so that we may put him to death in payment for the life of his brother, whose life he took; and we will put an end to the one who will get the heritage: so they will put out my last burning coal, and my husband will have no name or offspring on the face of the earth.

  • Ps 83:14
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    14 As fire burning a wood, and as a flame causing fire on the mountains,

  • Exod 22:6
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    6 If there is a fire and the flames get to the thorns at the edge of the field, causing destruction of the cut grain or of the living grain, or of the field, he who made the fire will have to make up for the damage.

  • Nah 3:15
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    15 There the fire will make you waste; you will be cut off by the sword: make yourself as great in number as the worms, as great in number as the locusts.

  • Ezek 15:4-5
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    4 See, it is put into the fire for burning: the fire has made a meal of its two ends and the middle part of it is burned; is it good for any work?

    5 Truly, before it was cut down, it was not used for any purpose: how much less, when the fire has made a meal of it and it is burned, will it be made into anything?

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    10 The keepers of sheep have been the destruction of my vine-garden, crushing my heritage under their feet; they have made my fair heritage an unplanted waste;

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    10 No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.

  • Ps 102:3
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    3 My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire.

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    26 All his wealth is stored up for the dark: a fire not made by man sends destruction on him, and on everything in his tent.

  • Job 18:16
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    16 Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

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    28 But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off.

  • Isa 33:12
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    12 And the peoples will be like the burning of chalk: as thorns cut down, which are burned in the fire.

  • Job 31:23
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    23 For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things.

  • Amos 1:12
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    12 And I will send a fire on Teman, burning up the great houses of Bozrah.

  • Joel 1:19
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    19 O Lord, my cry goes up to you: for fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste, and all the trees of the field are burned with its flame.

  • Jer 22:7
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    7 And I will make ready those who will send destruction on you, everyone armed for war: by them your best cedar-trees will be cut down and put in the fire.

  • Jer 15:14
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    14 They will go away with your haters into a land which is strange to you: for my wrath is on fire with a flame which will be burning on you.

  • Exod 22:24
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    24 And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.

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    7 By him my vine is made waste and my fig-tree broken: he has taken all its fruit and sent it down to the earth; its branches are made white.

  • Jer 21:14
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    14 I will send punishment on you in keeping with the fruit of your doings, says the Lord: and I will put a fire in her woodlands, burning up everything round about her.

  • Mal 4:1
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    1 For see, the day is coming, it is burning like an oven; all the men of pride and all who do evil will be dry stems of grass: and in the day which is coming they will be burned up, says the Lord of armies, till they have not a root or a branch.

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    10 Let burning flames come down on them: let them be put into the fire, and into deep waters, so that they may not get up again.

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    11 By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

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    12 The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:

  • Ezek 15:7
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    7 And my face will be turned against them; and though they have come out of the fire they will be burned up by it; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord when my face is turned against them.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10 For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

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    9 If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!

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    28 Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.

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    12 But she was uprooted in burning wrath, and made low on the earth; the east wind came, drying her up, and her branches were broken off; her strong rod became dry, the fire made a meal of it.

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    14 Truly, they have become like dry stems, they have been burned in the fire; they are not able to keep themselves safe from the power of the flame: it is not a coal for warming them, or a fire by which a man may be seated.

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    11 The Lord has given full effect to his passion, he has let loose his burning wrath; he has made a fire in Zion, causing the destruction of its bases.