Job’s Final Appeal
Job 31:10
In 11 translations
- BSB
- then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.
- KJV
- Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
- WEB
- then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.
- ASV
- Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her.
- LSV
- Let my wife grind to another, || And let others bend over her.
- YLT
- Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend.
- DBY
- Let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.
- DRC
- Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her.
- GNV
- Let my wife grinde vnto another man, and let other men bow downe vpon her:
- JPS
- Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
- LXXE
- then let my wife also please another, and let my children be brought low.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- תִּטְחַ֣ן לְאַחֵ֣ר אִשְׁתִּ֑י וְ֝עָלֶ֗יהָ יִכְרְע֥וּן אֲחֵרִֽין׃
- LXX-Br
- ἀρέσαι ἄρα καὶ ἡ γυνή μου ἑτέρῳ, τὰ δὲ νήπιά μου ταπεινωθείη.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Jeremiah 8:10Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit.
- Isaiah 47:2Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.
- 2 Samuel 12:11This is what the LORD says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight.
- Deuteronomy 28:30You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit.
- Exodus 11:5and every firstborn son in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, to the firstborn of the servant girl behind the hand mill, as well as the firstborn of all the cattle.
- Hosea 4:13–14They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery. I…
- Matthew 24:41Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left.
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