Job 31:9
If my heart have been beguiled toward a woman, or if I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door:
Leeser Tanakh
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; and let what I have growing be rooted out.
10Then may my wife labor at the mill for another, and may strangers ill-use her;
Cross References
Deuteronomy 5:21(5:18) Neither shalt thou covet thy neighbor's wife. Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbor's house, nor his field, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.
1 Kings 11:4And it came to pass, at the time that Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not undivided with the Lord his God, like the heart of David his father.
Job 24:15And the eye of the adulterer watcheth for the twilight, saying, No eye will see me; and placeth a covering on his face.
Proverbs 5:3For as of fine honey drop the lips of an adulterous woman, and smoother than oil is her palate;
Proverbs 6:27Can a man gather up fire in his lap, and shall his clothes not be burnt?
Proverbs 22:14A deep pit is the mouth of adulterous women: he that hath obtained the indignation of the Lord will fall thereinto.
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 →