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No Adultery

“If my heart has been seduced by a woman
    and I’ve laid in wait at my friend’s door,
10 then let my wife cook[a] for another person
    and may someone else sleep with her,
11 because something as lascivious as that
    is an iniquity that should be judged.
12 The fires of Abaddon[b] will burn,[c]
    disrupting every part of my eternal reward.”[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 31:10 Lit. grind
  2. Job 31:12 Or Destruction; i.e. the realm of eternal punishment in the afterlife
  3. Job 31:12 Lit. consume
  4. Job 31:12 Lit. my harvest

If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;

10 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

11 For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

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