Genesis 39:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

How then can I do this great wickedness? This remonstrance, when all inferior arguments had failed, embodied the true principles of moral purity-a principle always sufficient where it exists, and alone sufficient.

Genesis 39:9

9 There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?