Job 31:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; ”

Job 31:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If mine heart have been deceived by a woman - If I have been enticed by her beauty. The word rendered “deceived” פתה pâthâh means to open, to expand. It is then applied to that which is ope...
Job 31:9 - 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 31:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; If mine heart have been deceived by a woman - The Septuagint add, ανδρος ἑτερου, another man's wife.
Job 31:9 - 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 31:9 - 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 31:9 - 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 31:9 - 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 31:9 - 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 31:9 - 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 31:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

If mine heart have been deceived by a woman ,.... By another man's wife, by wantonly looking at her beauty, and so lusting after her; and so, not through any blame or fault of hers, or by any artful...
Job 31:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or [if] I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; Ver. 9. If my heart hath been deceived by a woman ] By a female sinner, as they call such, a strange w...
Job 31:9 - 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 31:9 - 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 31:9 - 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 31:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

By a woman, to wit, by a strange woman, or rather by my neighbour's wife, as the next words limit it; for of a maid he spoke before, Job 31:1 , and this cannot be meant of his own wife. He saith...
Job 31:9 - 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 31:9 - 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 31:9 - 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 31:9 - 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 31:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Recounts his Blameless Conduct
Job 31:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 11:4 ; Ecclesiastes 7:26 ; Hosea 7:4 ; Jeremiah 5:8 ; Job 24:15 ; Job 24:16 ; Judges 16:5 ; Nehemiah 13:26 ; Proverbs 2:16-19 ; Proverbs 22:14 ; Proverbs 5:3-23 ; Proverbs 6:25 ;...

Job 31:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 31:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 31:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 31:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 31:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 31:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 31:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 31:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 31:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 31:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 31:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 31:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 31:9 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 31:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 31:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 31:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 31:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 31:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 31:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 31:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 31:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge