Job 31:11
For it [is] a wicked thing, and a judicial iniquity;
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
In Context
10Let my wife grind to another, || And let others bend over her.
12For it [is] a fire, it consumes to destruction, || And takes root among all my increase,
Cross References
Genesis 26:10And Abimelech says, “What [is] this you have done to us? As a little thing one of the people had lain with your wife, and you had brought on us guilt”;
Genesis 39:9none is greater in this house than I, and he has not withheld from me anything, except you, because you [are] his wife; and how will I do this great evil? Then I have sinned against God.”
Leviticus 20:10And a man who commits adultery with a man’s wife—who commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor—the adulterer and the adulteress are surely put to death.
Job 31:28It also [is] a judicial iniquity, || For I had lied to God above.
Ezekiel 16:38And I have judged you—judgments of adultresses, || And of women shedding blood, || And have given you blood, 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 →