Holy Scripture
Job 31:12
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“For this is an heinous crime; and the chiefest iniquity. For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and that rooteth out all increase. There is this difference between 'sin' and 'crime,' that all crime is sin, but not all sin is crime. And in this life there are numbers without crime, but no one can be without si…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
12For it is a fire burning on every side, And whomsoever it attacks, it utterly destroys.
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10Then let my wife also please another, And let my children be brought low.
11For the rage of anger is not to be controlled, In the case of defiling another man’s wife.
— Job 31:12 —
13And if too I despised the judgment of my servant or my handmaid, When they pleaded with me;
14What then shall I do if the Lord should try me? And if also he should at all visit me, can I make an answer?