Job 31:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ “If my heart has been enticed by a woman and I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, Or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ If my heart has been deceived and I made a fool by a woman, or if I have [covetously] laid wait at my neighbor's door [until his departure],

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door;

Common English Bible

⁹ If my heart has been drawn to a woman and I have lurked at my neighbor’s door,

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ If my heart has been deceived over a woman, or if I have waited in ambush at my friend's door,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend's door:

Job 31:9 Cross References

1 Kings 11:4

For when Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David.

Nehemiah 13:26

Did not King Solomon of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin.

Job 31:1

“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how, then, could I look upon a virgin?

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of a loose woman is a deep pit; he with whom the Lord is angry falls into it.

Proverbs 6:25

Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes,

Proverbs 6:27

Can fire be carried in the bosom without burning one’s clothes?

Proverbs 7:21

With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

I found more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, whose heart is nets, whose hands are fetters; one who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.

Jeremiah 5:8

They were well-fed lusty stallions, each neighing for his neighbor’s wife.

Hosea 7:4

They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven whose baker does not need to stir the fire from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

Leviticus 20:10

“If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.

Deuteronomy 5:21

“ ‘Neither shall you covet your neighbor’s wife. “ ‘Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, or field, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.’

Judges 16:5

The lords of the Philistines came to her and said to her, “Coax him, and find out what makes his strength so great and how we may overpower him, so that we may bind him in order to subdue him, and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”