Job 31:11
For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges:
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
In Context
10Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.
12It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce.
Cross References
Genesis 26:10Then Abimelech said, What have you done to us? one of the people might well have had connection with your wife, and the sin would have been ours.
Genesis 39:9So that no one has more authority in this house than I have; he has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are his wife; how then may I do this great wrong, sinning against God?
Leviticus 20:10And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.
Job 31:28That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by the judges; for I would have been false to God on high.
Ezekiel 16:38And you will be judged by me as women are judged who have been untrue to their husbands and have taken life; and I will let loose against you passion and bitter feeling.
Matthew Henry on Job 31:10-16
9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; 10 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. 11 For this is a heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges. 12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase. 13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me; 14 What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I… Read the whole commentary →