Job 31:10

31:10 then let my wife turn the millstone for another man,

and may other men have sexual relations with her.


tn Targum Job interpreted the verb טָחַן (takhan, “grind”) in a sexual sense, and this has influenced other versions and commentaries. But the literal sense fits well in this line. The idea is that she would be a slave for someone else. The second line of the verse then might build on this to explain what kind of a slave – a concubine (see A. B. Davidson, Job, 215).

tn Heb “bow down over her,” an idiom for sexual relations.