Job 31:12 meaning and explanation

For it is a fire that burns down to Abaddon; it would root out my entire harvest.

Job 31:12, Berean Standard Bible

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Job is finishing a long oath of innocence before God, listing sins he says he has not committed. Here he describes adultery as a fire that burns down to Abaddon, the Hebrew word for the realm of the dead or destruction, and that would uproot his whole harvest.

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