Job 31:9
If mine heart hath bene deceiued by a woman, or if I haue layde wayte at the doore of my neighbour,
Geneva Bible 1599
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 sowe, and let another eate: yea, let my plantes be rooted out.
10Let my wife grinde vnto another man, and let other men bow downe vpon her:
Cross References
Deuteronomy 5:21Neither shalt thou couet thy neighbours wife, neither shalt thou desire thy neighbours house, his fielde, nor his man seruant, nor his mayd, his oxe, nor his asse, nor ought that thy neighbour hath.
1 Kings 11:4For when Salomon was olde, his wiues turned his heart after other gods, so that his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of Dauid his father.
Job 24:15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, and sayth, None eye shall see me, and disguiseth his face.
Proverbs 5:3For the lippes of a strange woman drop as an honie combe, and her mouth is more soft then oyle.
Proverbs 6:27Can a man take fire in his bosome, and his clothes not be burnt?
Proverbs 22:14The mouth of strage women is as a deepe pit: he with whom the Lord is angry, 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 →