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Job 31:9

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

If my heart has gone astray over a woman or I have lurked at my neighbour’s door,

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And I find more bitter than death  the woman who is a trap:  her heart a net and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her.


When Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away to follow other gods. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord his God, as his father David had been.


The Philistine leaders  went to her and said, ‘Persuade him to tell you  where his great strength comes from, so we can overpower him, tie him up, and make him helpless. Each of us will then give you 1,100 pieces of silver.’


All of them commit adultery; they are like an oven heated by a baker who stops stirring the fire from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.


They are well-fed,  eager   stallions, each neighing  after someone else’s wife.


The mouth of the forbidden woman is a deep pit; a man cursed by the  Lord will fall into it.


Don’t lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyelashes.


Didn’t King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel, yet foreign women drew him into sin.


She seduces him with her persistent pleading; she lures with her flattering talk.


I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I look at a young woman?  ,


‘If a man commits adultery  with a married woman #– #if he commits adultery with his neighbour’s wife #– #both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.


Do not covet your neighbour’s wife or desire your neighbour’s house, his field, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbour.


Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?





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