Job 31:9,10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

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 at my neighbour's door Watching for his absence, or some fair opportunity to enter his house and defile his bed. Then let my wife grind unto another Let another take away my wife from me, make her the vilest slave, and use her at his pleasure. Not as if Job desired this, but that if God should give up his wife to such wickedness, he would acknowledge his justice in it.

Job 31:9-10

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.