Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down upon her.
New American Standard Bible
And let
King James Version
Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
Holman Bible
and let other men sleep with
International Standard Version
then let my wife cook for another person and may someone else sleep with her,
American Standard Version
Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her.
Amplified
Let my wife grind [meal, like a bond slave] for another [man],
And let others
Bible in Basic English
Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.
Darby Translation
Let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.
Julia Smith Translation
My wife shall grind for another, and others shall bow down upon her.
King James 2000
Then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.
Lexham Expanded Bible
let my wife grind for another, and let other [men] kneel over her,
Modern King James verseion
then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down on her.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O then let my wife be another man's harlot and let others lie with her.
NET Bible
then let my wife turn the millstone for another man, and may other men have sexual relations with her.
New Heart English Bible
then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.
The Emphasized Bible
Let my wife, grind to another, and, over her, let others bend!
Webster
Then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down upon her.
World English Bible
then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.
Youngs Literal Translation
Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 31:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense Continued
9 If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door, 10 then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down upon her. 11 For that is a heinous crime, yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
Phrases
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Cross References
Jeremiah 8:10
Therefore I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall possess them. For everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness. From the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely.
Isaiah 47:2
Take the millstones, and grind meal. Remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
Exodus 11:5
and all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sits upon his throne, even to the first-born of the maid-servant that is behind the mill, and all the first-born of cattle.
2 Samuel 12:11
Thus says LORD, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house. And I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them to thy neighbor, and he shall lay with thy wives in the sight of this sun.
Deuteronomy 28:30
Thou shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lay with her. Thou shall build a house, and thou shall not dwell in it. Thou shall plant a vineyard, and shall not use the fruit of it.
Hosea 4:13-14
They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow of it is good. Therefore your daughters play the harlot, and your brides commit adultery.
Matthew 24:41
Two women grinding at the mill, one is taken, and one is left.