If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,
Two more instances we have here of Job's integrity: - I. That he had a very great abhorrence of the sin of adultery. As he did not wrong his own marriage bed by keeping a concubine (he did not so much as think upon a maid, v. 1), so he was careful not to offer any injury to his neighbour's marriage bed. Let us see here, 1.
Commenting on Job 31:9-15
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 be exposed to the company of the meanest of persons, and to their insults and abuses; as we find such as were taken captives and made prisoners by...
Job asserts his innocence of adultery. deceived--hath let itself be seduced (Pro 7:8; Gen 39:7-12). laid wait--until the husband went out.