Job 31:9
If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait,
Young's Literal Translation
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 my products let be rooted out.
10Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 5:21'Thou dost not desire thy neighbour's wife; nor dost thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, and his man-servant, and his handmaid, his ox, and his ass, and anything which [is] thy neighbour's.
1 Kings 11:4And it cometh to pass, at the time of the old age of Solomon, his wives have turned aside his heart after other gods, and his heart hath not been perfect with Jehovah his God, like the heart of David his father.
Job 24:15And the eye of an adulterer Hath observed the twilight, Saying, 'No eye doth behold me.' And he putteth the face in secret.
Proverbs 5:3For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil [is] her mouth,
Proverbs 6:27Doth a man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burnt?
Proverbs 22:14A deep pit [is] the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth 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 →