Job 31:10

then let my wife turn the millstone ¹  for another man, and may other men have sexual relations with her. ² 

biblegateway Job 31:10

then may my wife grind another man’s grain, and may other men sleep with her.

biblegateway Job 31:10

May my wife grind for another, And let others kneel down over her.

biblegateway Job 31:10

then may my wife belong to another man; may other men sleep with her.

biblegateway Job 31:10

Fine, my wife has every right to go ahead and sleep with anyone she wants to.

SABDAweb Job 31:10

Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.

bibleoremus Job 31:10

then let my wife grind for another, and let other men kneel over her.

biblegateway Job 31:10

Then let my wife grind for another, And let others bow down over her.

biblegateway Job 31:10

then let my wife turn the millstone ¹  for another man, and may other men have sexual relations with her. ² 

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).

² tn Heb “bow down over her,” an idiom for sexual relations.

² sn The idea is that if Job were guilty of adultery it would be an offense against the other woman’s husband, and so by talionic justice another man’s adultery with Job’s wife would be an offense against him. He is not wishing something on his wife; rather, he is simply looking at what would be offenses in kind.