Job 31:9

In 11 translations

BSB

If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked at his door,

KJV

If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;

WEB

“If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,

ASV

If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door;

LSV

If my heart has been enticed by a woman, || And I laid wait by the opening of my neighbor,

YLT

If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait,

DBY

If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour's door,

DRC

If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend’s door:

GNV

If mine heart hath bene deceiued by a woman, or if I haue layde wayte at the doore of my neighbour,

JPS

If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbour's door;

LXXE

If my heart has gone forth after another man's wife, and if I laid wait at her doors;

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WLC

אִם־נִפְתָּ֣ה לִ֭בִּי עַל־אִשָּׁ֑ה וְעַל־פֶּ֖תַח רֵעִ֣י אָרָֽבְתִּי׃

LXX-Br

Εἰ ἐξηκολούθησεν ἡ καρδία μου γυναικὶ ἀνδρὸς ἑτέρου, εἰ καὶ ἐγκάθετος ἐγενόμην ἐπὶ θύραις αὐτῆς,

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• 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.
• 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.
• 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…
• Proverbs 6:25Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.
• Job 24:15–16The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face. In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.
• 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.
• Proverbs 2:16–19It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God. For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the…
• 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.
• Proverbs 22:14The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.
• Jeremiah 5:8They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.
• Proverbs 7:21With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures him.
• Proverbs 5:3–23Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil, in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol.…

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