Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
My wife shall grind for another, and others shall 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,
A Conservative Version
then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down upon 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.
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 was seduced by woman, and I laid wait at the door of my neighbor; 10 My wife shall grind for another, and others shall bow down upon her. 11 For this is crime, and this is iniquity for the judges.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 8:10
For this I will give their wives to others; their fields to those inheriting them: for from small and even to great all plundering a plunder, from the prophet and even to the priest, all did falsehood.
Isaiah 47:2
Take the two mill-stones and grind flour, and uncover thy veil; strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.
Exodus 11:5
And every first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh sitting upon his throne, even to the first-born of the maid which is behind the two mill-stones; and every first-born of quadruped.
2 Samuel 12:11
Thus said Jehovah, Behold me raising up evil against thee from thy house, and I took thy wives before thine eyes and gave to thy neighbor, and he lay with thy wives before the eyes of this sun.
Deuteronomy 28:30
Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build a house and shall not dwell in it; thou shalt plant a vineyard and thou shalt not lay it open.
Hosea 4:13-14
Upon the heads of the mountains they will sacrifice, and upon the hills they will burn incense, under the oak and the white poplar and the terebinth, because its shadow was good: for this your daughters will commit fornication, and your brides shall commit adultery.
Matthew 24:41
Two grinding in the mill; one shall be taken, and one let go.