Catholic Public Domain Version
"It is a fire devouring all the way to perdition, and it roots out all that springs forth. "
— Job 31:12, Catholic Public Domain Version
“For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.”
“For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase. ”
“For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.”
“For it is a fire that devours even to Destruction, and it would uproot all my harvest.”
“It is a fire that devoureth even to destruction, and rooteth up all things that spring.”
“It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce.”
“For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.”
If my heart has been deceived over a woman, or if I have waited in ambush at my friend’s door,
then let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lean over her.
For this is a crime and a very great injustice.
It is a fire devouring all the way to perdition, and it roots out all that springs forth.
If I have despised being subject to judgment with my servant or my maid, when they had any complaint against me,
then what will I do when God rises to judge, and, when he inquires, how will I respond to him?
Is not he who created me in the womb, also he who labored to make him? And did not one and the same form me in the womb?