King James Version
Job 31:12 in the King James Version says “For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.” — study this verse from Job chapter 31 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.”
Job 31:12 · KJV
Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
KJV Study — Public Domain
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“and would root out”
H8327to root, i.e., strike into the soil, or (by implication) to pluck from it
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