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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 th...
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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...
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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 31:35)
Job 31:1. His final...
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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...
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THEN LET MY WIFE GRIND UNTO ANOTHER— _May my wife be defiled by
another._...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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THEN LET MY WIFE GRIND — _i.e._, perform all menial offices, like a
slave....
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תִּטְחַ֣ן לְ אַחֵ֣ר אִשְׁתִּ֑י וְ֝
עָלֶ֗יהָ יִכְרְע֥וּן אֲחֵרִֽין׃...
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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...
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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 iniquit...
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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...
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[Then] let my wife (g) grind unto another, and let others bow down
upon her.
(g) Let her be made a slave....
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_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...
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(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...
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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...
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[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...
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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;...
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_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...
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JOB RECOUNTS HIS BLAMELESS CONDUCT...
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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...
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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....
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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 MATTHEW...
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Job 31:10 wife H802 grind H2912 (H8799) another H312 others H312 down
H3766 (H8799)
grind - Exodus 11:5; Isaiah 47:2; Matthew 24:41
and let - 2 Samuel 12:11; Jeremiah 8:10;...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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 Proverbs 6:27). BURN TO THE ROOT ALL MY INCREASE.
A...
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_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 _privat...
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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...
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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...
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2 Samuel 12:11; Exodus 11:5; Hosea 4:13; Hosea 4:14; Isaiah 47:2;
Jeremiah 8:10; Matthew 24:41...
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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....