Job 31:9

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I find something more bitter than death: the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.

1 Kings 11:4

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

Judges 16:5

And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to humble him. And we will each give you 1,100 pieces of silver.”

Hosea 7:4

They are all adulterers; they are like a heated oven whose baker ceases to stir the fire, from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

Jeremiah 5:8

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

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of forbidden women is a deep pit; he with whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.

Proverbs 6:25

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

Nehemiah 13:26

Did not Solomon king 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.

Proverbs 7:21

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

Job 31:1

“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?

Leviticus 20:10

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

Deuteronomy 5:21

“‘And you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. And you shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.’

Proverbs 6:27

Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes not be burned?