Job 31:9

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

If mine heart {H3820} have been deceived {H6601} by a woman {H802}, or if I have laid wait {H693} at my neighbour's {H7453} door {H6607};

"If my heart has been enticed toward a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door;

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

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

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Cross-References

  • Judges 16:5 (4 votes)

    And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength [lieth], and by what [means] we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred [pieces] of silver.

  • 1 Kings 11:4 (4 votes)

    For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, [that] his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as [was] the heart of David his father.

  • Ecclesiastes 7:26 (4 votes)

    And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart [is] snares and nets, [and] her hands [as] bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

  • Hosea 7:4 (3 votes)

    They [are] all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, [who] ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

  • Job 24:15 (3 votes)

    The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth [his] face.

  • Job 24:16 (3 votes)

    In the dark they dig through houses, [which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

  • Proverbs 6:25 (3 votes)

    Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.