Job 31:11
For the rage of anger is not to be controlled, in the case of defiling another man's wife.
Brenton Septuagint
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 also please another, and let my children be brought low.
12For it is a fire burning on every side, and whomsoever it attacks, it utterly destroys.
Cross References
Genesis 26:10And Abimelech said to him, Why hast thou done this to us? one of my kindred + 26:10 q. d. had almost.within a little had lain with thy wife, and thou wouldest have brought a sin of ignorance upon us.
Genesis 39:9and in this house there is nothing above me, nor has anything been kept back from me, but thou, because thou art his wife—how then shall I do this wicked thing, and sin against God?
Leviticus 20:10Whatever man shall commit adultery with the wife of a man, or whoever shall commit adultery with the wife of his neighbour, let them die the death, the adulterer and the adulteress.
Job 31:28let this also then be reckoned to me as the greatest iniquity: for I should have lied against the Lord Most High.
Ezekiel 16:38And I will be avenged on thee with the vengeance of an adulteress, and I will bring upon thee blood of fury and jealousy.
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 →