IF I HAVE EVER CHEATED ON MY WIFE!:

"If my heart has been seduced by a woman, or if I have lusted for my neighbor's wife, then let my wife belong to another man; let other men sleep with her. For lust is a shameful sin, a crime that should be punished. It is a fire that burns all the way to hell. It would wipe out everything I own”. Job 31:9-12 (NLT)

How many husbands can boldly confess this, “If I have ever cheated on my wife, let another man sleep with her”? Adultery begins with lust in the heart that leads to furtive attempts to satisfy sinful desires. Job had never lurked about to see when his neighbor's wife would be alone. If he was guilty, then he was willing for his own wife to become another man's slave and mistress! Adultery is a heinous crime that brings shameful and painful consequences in this life. He said, “It would wipe out everything I own”. All his investment and wealth will be gone and judgment will follow in the next life. That he had a very great abhorrence of the sin of adultery. As he did not wrong his own marriage bed by keeping a concubine (he did not so much as think upon a maid according to verse 1), so he was careful not to offer any injury to his neighbour's marriage bed. He did not so much as covet his neighbour's wife; for even his heart was not deceived by a woman. 

The beauty of another man's wife did not kindle in him any unchaste desires, nor was he ever moved by the allurements of an adulterous woman, such as is described in Prov 7:6. WHAT AN INTEGRITY WORTH EMULATING!