For it came about, as Solomon grew old, that his wives led his heart away after other gods, so that his heart was no longer wholly devoted to Adonai his God, unlike the heart of his father David.
Job 31:9 - Tree of Life Version If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or I have lurked 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 it came about, as Solomon grew old, that his wives led his heart away after other gods, so that his heart was no longer wholly devoted to Adonai his God, unlike the heart of his father David.
Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin about these things? Yet among many nations there was never any king like him. Yes, he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, the foreign women caused even him to sin.
The mouth of a seducing woman is a deep pit—into it will fall one with whom Adonai is angry.
Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyelids.
With her persistent pleading she entices him, with smooth talk she seduces him.
I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a trap, and whose hands are chains. He who pleases God will escape her, but a sinner will be captured by her.
They are well-fed, lustful stallions, each neighing for his neighbor’s wife.
All of them are practicing adultery, as an oven heated by a baker who stops stirring or kneading dough when it is leavened.
“The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, who commits adultery with his friend’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress should surely be put to death.
Then you said, ‘Adonai our God has just shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire. This day we have seen that God speaks with man, and yet he keeps on living.
So the Philistine lords came up to her and said to her, “Coax him, see where his great strength comes from and by what we may overpower him, so we may bind him to subdue him—then we’ll each of us give you 1,100 pieces of silver.”