“If my heart has been enticed(A) by a woman,(B)
    or if I have lurked at my neighbor’s door,
10 then may my wife grind(C) another man’s grain,
    and may other men sleep with her.(D)
11 For that would have been wicked,(E)
    a sin to be judged.(F)
12 It is a fire(G) that burns to Destruction[a];(H)
    it would have uprooted my harvest.(I)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 31:12 Hebrew Abaddon

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