You will betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her. You will build a house, and you won’t dwell in it. You will plant a vineyard, and not use its fruit.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 30. Her. Job makes use of the same imprecation. Calmet. 31:10. Let my wife be the harlot of another. But he immediately subjoins, For this is a heinous crime, and so forth which may be applied, both to him who seeks to commit an impure action, (verse 9,) and to those who attempt to punish it by a similar abomination. No person is allowed to wish that a sin may be committed. The Hebrew and Septuagint very properly render all these imprecations in the future tense. “Thou shalt marry (or betroth) a wife, and another man shall,” which, no doubt, would be an intolerable provocation. Bible.