Job 31:9

American Standard Version (1901)

If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;

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  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, [and] whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. [
  • Jer 5:8 : 8 They were as fed horses roaming at large; every one neighed after his neighbor's wife.
  • Hos 7:4 : 4 They are all adulterers; they are as an oven heated by the baker; he ceaseth to stir [the fire], from the kneading of the dough, until it be leavened.
  • Prov 6:25 : 25 Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
  • Prov 7:21 : 21 With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along.
  • Prov 22:14 : 14 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.
  • Judg 16:5 : 5 And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred [pieces] of silver.
  • 1 Kgs 11:4 : 4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as was the heart of David his father.
  • Neh 13:26 : 26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did foreign women cause to sin.
  • Job 24:15-16 : 15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, Saying, No eye shall see me: And he disguiseth his face. 16 In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.
  • Prov 2:16-19 : 16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words; 17 That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God: 18 For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead; 19 None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:
  • Prov 5:3-9 : 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil: 4 But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on Sheol; 6 So that she findeth not the level path of life: Her ways are unstable, [and] she knoweth [it] not. 7 Now therefore, [my] sons, hearken unto me, And depart not from the words of my mouth. 8 Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house; 9 Lest thou give thine honor unto others, And thy years unto the cruel; 10 Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors [be] in the house of an alien, 11 And thou mourn at thy latter end, When thy flesh and thy body are consumed, 12 And say, How have I hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof; 13 Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! 14 I was well-nigh in all evil In the midst of the assembly and congregation. 15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well. 16 Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets? 17 Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee. 18 Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. 19 [ As] a loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love. 20 For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner? 21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah; And he maketh level all his paths. 22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin. 23 He shall die for lack of instruction; And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

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    12 For it is a fire that consumeth unto Destruction, And would root out all mine increase.

    13 If I have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, When they contended with me;

  • Job 31:25-27
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    25 If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because my hand had gotten much;

    26 If I have beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness,

    27 And my heart hath been secretly enticed, And my mouth hath kissed my hand:

  • Job 31:5-8
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    5 If I have walked with falsehood, And my foot hath hasted to deceit

    6 (Let me be weighed in an even balance, That God may know mine integrity);

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    8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; Yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out.

  • Job 31:33
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    33 If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding mine iniquity in my bosom,

  • Prov 7:5-6
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    5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.

    6 For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;

  • Prov 6:29-30
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    29 So he that goeth in to his neighbor's wife; Whosoever toucheth her shall not be unpunished.

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  • Prov 6:24-26
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    24 To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue.

    25 Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

    26 For on account of a harlot [a man is brought] to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.

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    16 If I have withheld the poor from [their] desire, Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

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    8 Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house;

    9 Lest thou give thine honor unto others, And thy years unto the cruel;

  • Job 31:20-21
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    20 If his loins have not blessed me, And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

    21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate:

  • Job 31:38-39
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    38 If my land crieth out against me, And the furrows thereof weep together;

    39 If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, Or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

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    1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon a virgin?

  • Eccl 7:26
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    26 And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, [and] whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. [

  • Job 31:29
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    29 If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, Or lifted up myself when evil found him;

  • Num 5:12-13
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    12 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,

    13 and a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, and she be not taken in the act;

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    32 A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her husband!

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    33 Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things.

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    12 Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.)

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    20 But if thou have gone aside, being under thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee besides thy husband:

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    8 Passing through the street near her corner; And he went the way to her house,

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    20 For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

  • Prov 7:25
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    25 Let not thy heart decline to her ways; Go not astray in her paths.

  • Lam 3:51
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    51 Mine eye affecteth my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

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    10 And, behold, there met him a woman With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.

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    29 This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goeth aside, and is defiled;

  • Ps 7:3
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    3 O Jehovah my God, if I have done this; If there be iniquity in my hands;

  • Prov 30:20
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    20 So is the way of an adulterous woman; She eateth, and wipeth her mouth, And saith, I have done no wickedness.

  • Prov 31:11
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    11 The heart of her husband trusteth in her, And he shall have no lack of gain.

  • Deut 22:14
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    14 and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came nigh to her, I found not in her the tokens of virginity;

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    15 If I had said, I will speak thus; Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy children.

  • Exod 22:16
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    16 And if a man entice a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

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    9 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, And from the gins of the workers of iniquity.

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    5 Trust ye not in a neighbor; put ye not confidence in a friend; keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

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    2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

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