Job 31:9
“If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door,
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
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. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
10then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 5:21“You shall not covet your neighbour’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbour’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbour’s.”
1 Kings 11:4When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father was.
Job 24:15The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face.
Proverbs 5:3For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,
Proverbs 6:27Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burnt?
Proverbs 22:14The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under the LORD’s wrath will fall into it.
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 →