Job 31:10 - Exposition

Then let my wife grind unto another ; i.e. "let the wife of my bosom be brought so low as to be compelled to do the servile work of grinding the corn in the household of another woman." The condition of the female slaves who ground the corn was regarded as the lowest point in domestic slavery (see Exodus 11:5 ; Isaiah 47:2 ). And let others bow down upon her . Let them, i.e; claim the master's right, and reduce her to the extremest degradation There would be a just nemesis in this punishment of an adulterer (see 2 Samuel 12:11 ).