Job 31:9 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 31:9-15

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, Job 31:1), so he was careful not to offer any injury to his neighbour's marriage bed. Let us see here, 1. How clear he was from this sin, Job 31:9. (1.) He did not so much as covet his neighbour's wife; for even his heart was not deceived by a woman. The beauty of another... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 31:9

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 methods made use of by her, to allure and ensnare; such as were practised by the harlot, Proverbs 7:1 ; but by neither was the heart of Job deceived, and drawn into the sin of uncleanness; for he had made a covenant with his eyes, as not to look at a virgin, so much less at another man's wife,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 31:9

If mine heart have been deceived by a woman - The Septuagint add, ανδρος ἑτερου , another man's wife. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 31:1-40

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 31:1-40

Job's second parable: 4. A solemn protestation of innocence. I. WITH RESPECT TO THE LAW OF CHASTITY . (Verses 1-4.) 1 . The wickedness he eschewed. Not alone the crime of seduction, or the actual defilement of virginal innocence, but even the indulgence of so much as a lascivious desire in connection with an unmarried female, was an ungodliness which Job regarded with abhorrence and indignation. Job's morality on this point, as also upon some others, is a remarkable... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 31:1-40

Solemn assurances of innocence. Job can discover no connection between his present sufferings and those well-founded hopes of his former life to which he has been referring; but there remains the assumption of his guilt as an explanation. In his intense longing for redemption he is led, in conclusion, to affirm in the most solemn and sacred manner his innocence, invoking the sorest punishments upon himself if his words are untrue. Thus, in effect, he makes a final appeal to God as his Judge.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 31:1-40

The consciousness of integrity. The Divine solution of the riddle of human life is being wrought out in this poem, although at times it seems as though the entanglement became more and more confused. The case, as put in these three chapters, is the condensation of all as far as it has gone. It still awaits the solution. Job was in riches, dignity, and honour; he is now cast down to ignominy and suffering. Yet he is righteous—this, at least, is his own conviction; and in this chapter he makes... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 31:9

If mine heart have been deceived by a woman ; rather, enticed , or allured unto a woman . If, that is, I have suffered myself at any time to be enticed by the wiles of a "strange woman" ( Proverbs 5:3 ; Proverbs 6:24 , etc.), and have so far yielded as to go after her; and if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door —watching for an opportunity to enter unseen, while the goodman is away ( Proverbs 7:19 ) Job is not speaking of what he has done, but of what men may suspect him of... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 31:9

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 ingenuous; to that which is unsuspicious - like a youth; and thence is used in the sense of being deceived, or enticed; Deuteronomy 11:16; Exodus 22:16; Proverbs 1:10; Proverbs 16:29. The word “woman” here probably means a married woman, and stands opposed to “virgin” in ver. 1. The crime which he here... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 31:9-10

Job 31:9-10. 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 at my neighbour’s door Watching for his absence, or some fair opportunity to enter his house and defile his bed. Then let my wife grind unto another Let another take away my wife from me, make her the vilest slave, and use her at his pleasure. Not as if Job desired this, but that... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Job 31:9-15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Job 31:9

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Job 31:9

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 31:1-40

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 31:1-40

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 31:1-40

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 31:1-40

The Pulpit Commentary - Job 31:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 31:9

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 31:9-10

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