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Job 31:9-10
9 If mine heart [leb] have been
deceived [pathah] by a woman ['ishshah], or if I have laid wait ['arab] at my neighbour's [rea`]
door [pethach];
10 Then let my wife ['ishshah] grind [tachan] unto another
['acher], and let others ['acher] bow down [kara`] upon her. KJV-Interlinear
9 'If my heart has been enticed
by a woman, Or I have lurked at my neighbor's doorway, 10 May my wife grind for another, And let
others kneel down over her. NASB
Now Job uses the married woman in his example. Earlier he used the virgin as the expression
of enticement into the ways of the world. Now the married woman signifies the
act of adultery, or the taking of something which belongs to another, the
taking of something which obviously does not belong to you. And all parties involved know it.
Lurking at another's door, is descriptive of waiting
for them to leave, and then going inside their home, a place which you have no
right to be, and taking or simply being there, in violation of the neighbors
privacy and property.
The ways of the world are herein made obvious. No one can live their life and say that they
'didn't know.' No one has any excuse
when their life finally ends and they finally stand before Jesus for their
final grade.
To be an adulterous, is described as the worst of
crimes. You not only cheat on your
current partner, but you violate the property, the rights, the privacy, and
life of someone else.
Marriage is considered to be extremely sacred. Around it revolves the stability of
society. When marriage is violated,
abused, compromised, then the fabric of society reels with the repercussions with
trouble galore.
If Job (if you), were to commit an act of adultery, if
you were to commit an act in which you took, openly and willingly and
knowingly, that which did not belong to you, then you should have no objection
when someone else comes along and takes that which is near and dear to you.
By cheating on his wife, then Job states that such a
person should then place their own wife (someone they hold extremely close to
their heart) in a position of the lowest levels of society.
To do menial tasks, such as grinding flour, or washing
floors, or anything which a slave person would typically do. And, because the wife is female, to be
automatically at the disposal and whim of the master to be used and abused (for
sexual pleasures) as he pleases, is the quintessence of degradation and
helplessness.
Such a slave has no recourse, no one to turn to for
help. Such a woman is helpless and made
to be useless except for the pleasures of a tyrant.
Now, the world is the tyrant taskmaster. You, when you cheat on your spiritual life,
are standing, lurking, and watching the world for pleasurable opportunities and
enticements. You seek out that which
does not belong to you and take it for your own possession. You commit adultery
with the world rather than committing fidelity with God through your spiritual
life.
Why then, when your life finally ends, would you be
surprised when God strips you of all of your possessions, your worldly things,
and leaves you stark naked, just as a slave girl is naked, before your tyrant
master - the world.
Job states clearly that if his life is such, then let
its result be as stated.
For the spiritually deficient person, then that is
what you should expect as the ultimate result of your life.
Unbelievers will lose the most, and that should be
obvious.
All believers will go to heaven, but those who have
ignored their spiritual life, or have not pursued it correctly, will be there
without any spiritual assets, without any spiritual growth to show for their
life. They will lose their eternal
'bonus' blessings. Stripped as it were,
of all that they tried to carry from this world, into the next.
Only those who advance in their spiritual life, and
certainly only those who advance to spiritual maturity, will end up with
phenomenal blessings in eternity.
To adulterize the world is to be enticed by something
that will never amount to anything, and at the same time, throwing away your
most valuable possession.
Now is the time to post a prayer.
End Of Lesson
Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth.
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