Job 31:9
If my heart has gone forth after another man’s wife, 1 And if I laid wait at her doors; 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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 others eat; 1 And let me be uprooted on the earth. 1
10Then let my wife also please another, 1 And let my children be brought low. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 5:21Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife; thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, nor his field, nor his manservant, nor his maid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any beast of his, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s.
1 Kings 11:4And it came to pass in the time of the old age of Solomon, that his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father. And the strange women turned away his heart after their gods.
Job 24:15And the eye of the adulterer has watched for the darkness, 1 Saying, Eye shall not perceive me, and he puts a covering on his face. 1
Proverbs 5:3For honey drops from the lips of a harlot, 1 Who for a season pleases thy palate: 1
Proverbs 6:27Shall anyone bind fire in his bosom, 1 And not burn his garments? 1
Proverbs 22:14a Evil ways are before a man, 1 And he does not like to turn away from them; 1 But it is needful to turn aside from a perverse and bad way. 1
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 →