Job 31:11
For the rage of anger is not to be controlled, 1 In the case of defiling another man’s wife. 1
Updated 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, 1 And let my children be brought low. 1
12For it is a fire burning on every side, 1 And whomsoever it attacks, it utterly destroys. 1
Cross References
Genesis 26:10And Abimelech said to him, Why hast thou done this to us? one of my kindred 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 neighbor, let them die the death, the adulterer and the adulteress.
Job 31:28Let this also then be reckoned to me as the greatest iniquity: 1 For I should have lied against the Lord Most High. 1
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 →