Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Job 31:9
Verse Job 31:9. If mine heart have been deceived by a woman] The Septuagint add, ανδρος ετερου, another man's wife.
Verse Job 31:9. If mine heart have been deceived by a woman] The Septuagint add, ανδρος ετερου, another man's wife.
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 open or in...
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...
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...
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...
אִם ־נִפְתָּ֣ה לִ֭בִּי עַל ־אִשָּׁ֑ה וְ עַל
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...
_Door, to seduce his wife. (Calmet) (Menochius)_...
(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...
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 me...
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 wom...
_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...
If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, enticed into adulterous relations with another man's wife, OR IF I HAVE LAID WAIT AT MY NEIGHBOR'S DOOR, Cf Proverbs 7:7,...
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...
Adultery here is denied in strong language. If Job had given into the enticements of another woman he was willing that his wife become. slave for someone else (the grinding of corn by hand with millst...
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...
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, _by a...
Job 31:9 heart H3820 enticed H6601 (H8738) woman H802 lurked H693 (H8804) neighbors H7453 door H6607
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...
1 Kings 11:4; Ecclesiastes 7:26; Hosea 7:4; Jeremiah 5:8; Job 24:15;...