Job 31:9
If my heart has been deceived over a woman, or if I have waited in ambush at my friend’s door,
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;
In Context
8then may I sow, and let another consume, and let my offspring be eradicated.
10then let my wife be the harlot of another, and let other men lean over her.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 5:21You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his house, nor his field, nor his man servant, nor his woman servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything out of all that is his.’
1 Kings 11:4And when now he was old, his heart was perverted by the women, so that he followed strange gods. And his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David.
Job 24:15The eye of the adulterer waits for darkness, saying, “No eye will see me,” and he covers his face.
Proverbs 5:3For the lips of a loose woman are like a dripping honeycomb, and her voice is smoother than oil.
Proverbs 6:27Would a man be able to conceal fire in his bosom, so that his garments would not burn?
Proverbs 22:14The mouth of a foreign woman is a deep pit; the Lord was angry with him who will fall into it.
Matthew Henry on Job 31:2-9
Job's Vindication of Himself. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? 2 For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? 3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? 4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? 5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; 6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. 7 If my step hath… Read the whole commentary →