Job 31:9
If my heart has been enticed by a woman, || And I laid wait by the opening of my neighbor,
Literal Standard 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
8Let me sow—and another eat, || And let my products be rooted out.
10Let my wife grind to another, || And let others bend over her.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 5:21You do not desire your neighbor’s wife, nor do you covet your neighbor’s house, his field, and his manservant, and his handmaid, his ox, and his donkey, and anything which [is] your neighbor’s.
1 Kings 11:4And it comes to pass, at the time of Solomon’s old age, his wives have turned aside his heart after other gods, and his heart has not been perfect with his God YHWH, like the heart of his father David.
Job 24:15And the eye of an adulterer || Has observed the twilight, || Saying, No eye beholds me. And he puts the face in secret.
Proverbs 5:3For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, || And her mouth [is] smoother than oil,
Proverbs 6:27Does a man take fire into his bosom, || And are his garments not burned?
Proverbs 22:14The mouth of strange women [is] a deep pit, || The abhorred of YHWH falls there.
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 →