Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 31:10
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.
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.
Verse Job 31:10. _LET MY WIFE GRIND UNTO ANOTHER_] Let her work at the _handmill_, grinding corn; which was the _severe_ work of the meanest _slave_. In this sense the passage is understood both by t...
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 sens...
CHAPTER 31 _ 1. My chastity and righteousness (Job 31:1)_ 2. My philanthropy (Job 31:13) 3. My integrity and hospitality (Job 31:24) 4. Let God and man disprove me ...
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 or e...
THEN LET MY WIFE GRIND UNTO ANOTHER— _May my wife be defiled by another._...
b. Was upright in his domestic relations (Job 31:9-15) c. He was kind and neighborly. (Job 31:16-23) TEXT 31:9-23 9 IF MY HEART HATH BEEN ENTICED ONTO A WOMAN, And I have laid wait at my neighbo...
_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, etc.; Genes...
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, mod...
TO GRIND at the mill is a menial task, the work of slaves....
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 31 JOB FINISHES HIS LAST SP...
A husband and wife should only have sex with each other. And unmarried people should not have sex. This is God’s command (Deuteronomy 5:18). Jesus also taught this (Matthew 5:27-28). Jude also warned...
THEN LET MY WIFE GRIND — _i.e._, perform all menial offices, like a slave....
תִּטְחַ֣ן לְ אַחֵ֣ר אִשְׁתִּ֑י וְ֝ עָלֶ֗יהָ י
XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1; Job 30:1; Job 31:1 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a pitiable second state of existence, Job looks back to the y...
THE CLEAN LIFE Job 31:1 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 iniquity...
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...
[Then] let my wife (g) grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. (g) Let her be made a slave....
_Let. Hebrew, "Let my wife grind for another, and let others bend over her," urging her to work like the meanest slave. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "Let my wife please (Grabe substitutes Greek: l of Gree...
(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 heino...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
[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, and...
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 24:41;...
_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...
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 hand-mill, AND LET OTHERS BOW DOWN UPON HER, in lustf...
JOB RECOUNTS HIS BLAMELESS CONDUCT...
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...
9-15 All the defilements of the life come from a deceived heart. Lust is a fire in the soul: those that indulge it, are said to burn. It consumes all that is good there, and lays the conscience waste...
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 47:2...
Job 31:10 wife H802 grind H2912 (H8799) another H312 others H312 down H3766 (H8799) grind -...
CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. He insists on his integrity. CHARACTERS: God, Job, friends. CONCLUSION: An upright heart does not dread a scrutiny. A good man is willing to know the worst of himse...
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, a...
_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 MORAL...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 31:9 ENTICED TOWARD A WOMAN. Job had avoided adultery, knowing that it can have far-reaching destructive effects like FIRE (see also...
_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 _private...
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 insinuat...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to the book of Job, chapter 31. Job has pretty well talked down all of his friends. Bildad has had his last word and Job is still responding, and has been responding, actua...
2 Samuel 12:11; Exodus 11:5; Hosea 4:13; Hosea 4:14; Isaiah 47:2;...