Księga Hioba 31:12

Biblia Tysiąclecia

Gdyż ten ogień aż do zatracenia pożera, a dochody moje wszystkie wykorzenić może.

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Jest to ogień, który wszytko pożyra, aż do szczątka, który by wykorzenił wszytkę majętność moję.

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Gdyż ten ogień aż do zatracenia pożera, a dochody moje wszystkie wykorzenić może.

Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
Tak, zasługiwałoby to na ogień - niechby palił aż do zniszczenia i niechby cały mój dorobek pochłonął do korzeni.

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Bo to jest ogień, co pożera aż do zniszczenia oraz wyplenia cały dobytek.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
To jest ogień, który pożera aż do zatracenia i może wykorzenić cały mój dobytek.

Biblia Warszawska
Bo to byłby ogień, który pożera aż do zatracenia, i mógłby pochłonąć całe moje mienie.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 3:33, Proverbs 6:27, Jeremiah 5:7-9, Malachi 3:5, Hebrews 13:4

Reciprocal: Isaiah 9:18 - wickedness

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For it [is] a fire [that] consumeth to destruction,.... Referring either to the nature of the sin of uncleanness; it is inflammatory, a burning lust, a fire burning in the breast; see 1 Corinthians 7:9; or to the effect of it, either the rage of jealousy in the injured person, which is exceeding fierce, furious, and cruel, like devouring fire, not to be appeased or mitigated, Proverbs 6:34; or else it may respect the punishment of this sin in the times of Job, and which we find was practised among the Gentiles, as the Canaanites, Job's neighbours, burning such delinquents with fire; see Genesis 38:24; or rather the wrath of God for it, which is poured forth as fire, and burns to the lowest hell, and into which lake of fire all such impure persons will be cast, unless the grace of God prevents; and which will be a fire that will consume and destroy both soul and body, and so be an utter and everlasting destruction,

Revelation 21:8;

and would root out all my increase; even in this world; adultery is a sin that not only ruins a man's character, fixes an indelible blot upon him, a reproach that shall not be wiped off, and consumes a man's body, and destroys the health of it, but his substance also, the increase of his fields, and of his fruits, and by means of it a man is brought to a piece of bread, to beg it, and to be glad of it, Proverbs 6:26.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction - This may mean that such an offence would be a crime that would provoke God to send destruction, like a consuming fire upon the offender (Rosenmuller and Noyes), or more likely it is designed to be descriptive of the nature of the sin itself. According to this, the meaning is, that indulgence in this sin tends wholly to ruin and destroy a man. It is like a consuming fire, which sweeps away everything before it. It is destructive to the body, the morals, the soul. Accordingly, it may be remarked that there is no one vice which pours such desolation through the soul as licentiousness. See Rush on the Diseases of the Mind. It corrupts and taints all the fountains of morals, and utterly annihilates all purity of the heart. An intelligent gentleman, and a careful observer of the state of things in society, once remarked to me, that on coming to the city of Philadelphia, it was his fortune to be in the same boarding-house with a number of young men, nearly all of whom were known to him to be of licentious habits. He has lived to watch their course of life; and he remarked, that there was not one of them who did not ultimately show that he was essentially corrupt and unprincipled in every department of morals. There is not any one propensity of man that spreads such a withering influence over the soul as this; and, however it may be accounted for, it is certain that indulgence in this vice is a certain evidence that the whole soul is corrupt, and that no reliance is to be placed on the man’s virtue in any respect, or in reference to any relation of life.

And would root out all mine increase - By its desolating effects on my heart and life. The meaning is, that it would utterly ruin him; compare Luke 15:13, Luke 15:30. How many a wretched sensualist can bear testimony to the truth of this statement! How many a young man has been wholly ruined in reference to his worldly interests, as well as in reference to his soul, by this vice compare Proverbs 7:0: No young man could do a better service to himself than to commit the whole of that chapter to memory, and so engrave it on his soul that it never could be forgotten.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 31:12. For it is a fire — Nothing is so destructive of domestic peace. Where jealousy exists, unmixed misery dwells; and the adulterer and fornicator waste their substance on the unlawful objects of their impure affections.