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.
Job 31:9 - Revised Standard Version “If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, Or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door; Common English Bible If my heart has been drawn to a woman and I have lurked at my neighbor’s door, Catholic Public Domain Version 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 If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend's door: |
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.
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.
“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I look upon a virgin?
The mouth of a loose woman is a deep pit; he with whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.
Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.
And I found 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.
They were well-fed lusty stallions, each neighing for his neighbor's wife.
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.
“If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.
“ ‘Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; and you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor's.’
And the lords of the Philistines came to her and said to her, “Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to subdue him; and we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”