Job 31:9 “If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife, or I have lurked a…”

Job 31:9

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

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

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;

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Cross references

“If mine”

1 Kings 11:4 Judges 16:5 Ecclesiastes 7:26 Nehemiah 13:26 Proverbs 2:16–19 Proverbs 6:25

1 Kings 11:4 · BSB

For 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.

Judges 16:5 · BSB

The 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 she…

Ecclesiastes 7:26 · BSB

And 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.

Nehemiah 13:26 · BSB

Did 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 2:16–19 · BSB

It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

Proverbs 6:25 · BSB

Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.

“if I”

Jeremiah 5:8 Hosea 7:4 Job 24:15 Job 24:16

Jeremiah 5:8 · BSB

They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.

Hosea 7:4 · BSB

They 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.

Job 24:15 · BSB

The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.

Job 24:16 · BSB

In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8then may another eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.

10then may my own wife grind grain for another, and may other men sleep with her.

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