Job 31:10
Good News Translation
then let my wife cook another man's food and sleep in another man's bed.

New Revised Standard Version
then let my wife grind for another, and let other men kneel over her.

Contemporary English Version
then let some stranger steal my wife from me.

New American Bible
Then may my wife grind for another, and may others kneel over her!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her.

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Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her.

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Exodus 11:5 And every firstborn in the land of the Egyptians shall die, from the firstborn of Pharao who sitteth on his throne, even to the firstborn of the handmaid that is at the mill, and all the firstborn of beasts.

Isaiah 47:2 Take a millstone and grind meal: uncover thy shame, strip thy shoulder, make bare thy legs, pass over the rivers.

Matthew 24:41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill. One shall be taken and one shall be left.

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2 Samuel 12:11 Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thy own house, and I will take thy wives before thy eyes and give them to thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

Jeremiah 8:10 Therefore will I give their women to strangers, their fields to others for an inheritance: because from the least even to the greatest all follow covetousness: from the prophet even to the priest all deal deceitfully.

Hosea 4:13,14 They offered sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burnt incense upon the hills: under the oak, and the poplar, and the turpentine tree, because the shadow thereof was good: therefore shall your daughters commit fornication, and your spouses shall be adulteresses. . . .

Context
Job's Final Appeal
9If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend's door: 10Let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lie with her.11For this is a heinous crime, and a most grievous iniquity.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:30
Mayst thou take a wife, and another sleep with her. Mayst thou build a house, and not dwell therein. Mayest thou plant a vineyard and not gather the vintage thereof.

Isaiah 47:2
Take a millstone and grind meal: uncover thy shame, strip thy shoulder, make bare thy legs, pass over the rivers.

Jeremiah 8:10
Therefore will I give their women to strangers, their fields to others for an inheritance: because from the least even to the greatest all follow covetousness: from the prophet even to the priest all deal deceitfully.

Job 31:9
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