Job 31:9
If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbour's door;
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 me sow, and let another eat; yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
10Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 5:21(5-18) Neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's wife; neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's house, his field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.
1 Kings 11:4For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not whole with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
Job 24:15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying: 'No eye shall see me'; and he putteth a covering on his face.
Proverbs 5:3For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
Proverbs 6:27Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
Proverbs 22:14The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
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 →