Job 31:10

"“If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,"

Key Reflection

In Job 31:10, this verse reflects Job's commitment to his integrity by denying any wandering of the heart or desire for another man's wife. It underscores his deep spiritual resolve and moral purity, ensuring that no impure thoughts or actions have defiled him.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Then let my wife grined unto another -Let her be subjected to the deepest humiliation and degradation. Probably Job could not have found language which would have more emphatically expressed his sense of the enormity of this crime, or his perfect consciousness of innocence. The last thing which a man would imprecate on himself, would be that which is specified in this verse. The word “grind” (טחןṭâchan) means to crush, to beat small; then to grind, as in a handmill;Judges 16:21;Numbers 11:8. This was usually the work of females and slaves; see the notes atIsaiah 47:2.

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