Job 31:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. ”

Job 31:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Job 31:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

[Then] let my wife (g) grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. (g) Let her be made a slave.
Job 31:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 31. The Oath of Clearing. Job's final protestation of his innocence, and appeal to God to judge him. This chapter, says Duhm, is the high-water mark of the OT ethic, higher than the Decalogue o...
Job 31:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. Let my wife grind unto another - Let her work at the handmill, grinding corn; which was the severe work of the meanest slave....
Job 31:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Then let my wife grind unto another— May my wife be defiled by another.
Job 31:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; Job asserts his innocence of adultery. Deceived - hath let itself be seduced ( Proverbs 7:8 , et...
Job 31:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job Protests the Innocence of his Past Life Job's virtues are those of a great Arab prince, such as are admired still: namely, blameless family life, consideration for the poor and weak, charity,...
Job 31:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Then let my wife grind — i.e. , perform all menial offices, like a slave.
Job 31:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1-25 ; Job 30:1-31 ; Job 31:1-40 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a pitiable second state of existence, Job...
Job 31:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Clean Life Job 31:1-40 Job had specially guarded against impurity, for its heritage is one of calamity and disaster. He is sure that even if he were weighed by God Himself there would be no...
Job 31:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This whole chapter is taken up with Job's solemn oath of innocence. It is ills official answer to the line of argument adopted by his three friends. In the process of his declaration he called on God...
Job 31:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(9) В¶ 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 an hein...
Job 31:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

[Then] let my wife grind unto another ,.... Which some understand literally, of her being put to the worst of drudgery and slavery, to work at a mill, and grind corn for the service of a stranger, a...
Job 31:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 31:10 [Then] let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. Ver. 10. Then let my wife grind unto another ] i.e. Let her be his slave, as Lam 5:13 Exodus 11:5 Matthew...
Job 31:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

If my heart have been deceived by a woman Namely, by a strange woman, or rather, by my neighbour's wife, as the next words limit the clause; for of a maid he had spoken before. If I have laid wait...
Job 31:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Though Job's misery was complete, he returns in this chapter to the defence of his whole life, which was comparatively more virtuous than that of any other man. God had said this to Satan long before...
Job 31:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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...
Job 31:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Let my wife grind unto another; either, 1. Let her be taken captive, and made a slave to grind in other men's mills; which was a sore and vile servitude, Exodus 11:5 Judges 16:21 Isaiah 47:...
Job 31:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

JOB’S SELF-VINDICATION.—HIS SOLILOQUY CONTINUED Concludes his speeches by a solemn, particular, and extended declaration of the purity and uprightness of his life. Especial reference to his pri...
Job 31:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 31:1 . A maid. The LXX, followed by the Chaldaic, read virgin; but our English version has the most ancient support. Job was pure and spotless in conversation with women. He abhorred seduction...
Job 31:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

I made a covenant with mine eyes. Guard the senses Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan’s landing places, especially the eye and the ear. ( W. Gurnall. ) Methods of mo...
Job 31:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION The conclusion of Job's long speech (ch. 26-31.) is now reached. He winds it up by a solemn vindication of himself from all the charges of wicked conduct which have been alleged or in...
Job 31:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Recounts his Blameless Conduct
Job 31:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 12:11 ; Exodus 11:5 ; Hosea 4:13 ; Hosea 4:14 ; Isaiah 47:2 ; Jeremiah 8:10 ; Matthew 24:41
Job 31:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Then — Not as if Job desired this; but that if God should give up his wife to such wickedness, he should acknowledge his justice in it.

Job 31:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 31:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 31:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 31:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 31:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Job 31:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 31:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 31:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 31:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 31:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 31:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 31:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 31:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 31:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 31:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 31:10 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 31:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 31:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 31:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 31:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 31:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 31:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 31:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 31:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 31:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes