Job 31:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,”
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“If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;”
King James Version · Public Domain“If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 31:9 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 20:10If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.
- Deuteronomy 5:21You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
- Judges 16:5The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”
- 1 Kings 11:4For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.
- Nehemiah 13:26Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all Israel—yet foreign women drew him into sin.
- Job 24:15The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.
- Proverbs 2:16It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
- Proverbs 5:3Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
- Proverbs 6:25Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.
- Proverbs 6:27Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?
- Proverbs 7:21With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures him.
- Proverbs 22:14The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.
- Ecclesiastes 7:26And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.
- Jeremiah 5:8They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.
- Hosea 7:4They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).