Job 31:10

Then let my wife grind unto another— May my wife be defiled by another.

Related Commentaries of 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 languag...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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 li...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

To grind at the mill is a menial task, the work of slaves.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Then let my wife grind — i.e. , perform all menial offices, like a slave.
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 in...
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 i...
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....
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...
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 mil...
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...
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...
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...
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, a...
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 se...
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 uprig...
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...
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 th...
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 charg...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Recounts his Blameless Conduct
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

then let my wife grind unto another, in the position of the lowest secondary wife, who had to attend to the grinding of the household flour on the ha...
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
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.

¹⁰ Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

Related Commentaries of Job 31:10

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 31:10