What Does Job 31:11 Mean in the King James?
For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The verse calls the offense a devised thing, placing what is hidden within reach of judgment.
THE MEANING
The verse names sexual betrayal as a devised offense and places it within the reach of judgment. What is hidden in intention still belongs to the shared moral world.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It dissolves the belief that a hidden scheme escapes judgment simply because it remains hidden.
THE ROOT
זִמָּה
zimmah
GROWS FROM
זמם
To devise, plan, or plot.
“heinous crime” in this verse is zimmah. זִמָּה can name a shameful offense and a wicked design; its connection to זמם holds the act and its formation together. In the surrounding lines, desire and lying in wait are named before this offense is placed under judgment.
ALSO GROWS
zāmam: To devise, plan, or plot.
זָמַם
This verb gives the root action: forming a plan, the shade that illuminates זִמָּה as more than an unspecified wrong.
zomem: One who devises or plots.
זֹמֵם
This form names the one carrying out the root action, keeping the focus on an offense shaped in intention.
THE PATTERN
Concealed intent remains within the reach of moral judgment.
If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.THE THREAD
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.The Hebrew word translated “wickedness” here is זִמָּה (zimmah), the same word rendered “heinous crime” in Job. The shared word connects both passages to the language of sexual wrongdoing and devised offense.
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