Job 31:11

Job's Final Defense Continued

¹⁰ let my own wife grind grain for another man,
and let other men sleep with her.
¹¹ For that would be a disgrace;
it would be a crime deserving punishment.
¹² For it is a fire that consumes down to Abaddon;
it would destroy my entire harvest.

Job

Sin

Leviticus 20:10

If a man commits adultery with a married woman—if he commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife—both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.

Job 31:28

this would also be a crime deserving punishment,
for I would have denied God above.

Genesis 38:24

About three months later Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law, Tamar, has been acting like a prostitute, and now she is pregnant.”

“Bring her out!” Judah said. “Let her be burned to death!”

Deuteronomy 22:22-24

“If a man is discovered having sexual relations with another man’s wife, both the man who had sex with the woman and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

Genesis 20:9

Then Abimelech called Abraham in and said to him, “What have you done to us? How did I sin against you that you have brought such enormous guilt on me and on my kingdom? You have done things to me that should never be done.”

Genesis 26:10

Then Abimelech said, “What is this you’ve done to us? One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us.”

Genesis 39:9

No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”

Exodus 20:14

Do not commit adultery.

Proverbs 6:29-33

So it is with the one who sleeps with
another man’s wife;
no one who touches her will go unpunished.

Ezekiel 16:38

I will judge you the way adulteresses and those who shed blood are judged. Then I will bring about your bloodshed in wrath and jealousy.