Job 31:9
If a woman has seduced me, or if I have looked for an opportunity to sleep with my neighbor's wife,
Free Bible 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 let someone else eat what I have sown, and all that I have grown be uprooted.
10then let my wife serve another, let other men sleep with her.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 5:21You must not desire to have anyone else's wife. You must not desire to have their house or field, or their male slave or female slave, or their ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to them.”
1 Kings 11:4As Solomon grew old, his wives led him to follow other gods, and he did not commit himself wholeheartedly to the Lord as his father David had done.
Job 24:15The adulterer waits for dusk, saying to himself, ‘No one will see me now,’ and he covers his face.
Proverbs 5:3For the lips of an immoral woman may taste as sweet as honey, the kisses of her mouth may be as smooth as oil,
Proverbs 6:27Can you put fire in your lap and not burn your clothes?
Proverbs 22:14The seductive words of an immoral woman are a dangerous trap—if the Lord's angry with you, then you'll fall right in.
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 →