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Job 31:10

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31:10 then let my wife turn the millstone 1  for another man,

and may other men have sexual relations with her. 2 

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[31:10]  1 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).

[31:10]  2 tn Heb “bow down over her,” an idiom for sexual relations.



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