Job 31:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;

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  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.
  • Jer 5:8 : 8 They were full of desire, like horses after a meal of grain: everyone went after his neighbour's wife.
  • Hos 7:4 : 4 They are all untrue; they are like a burning oven; the bread-maker does not make up the fire from the time when the paste is mixed till it is leavened.
  • Prov 6:25 : 25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.
  • Prov 7:21 : 21 With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.
  • Prov 22:14 : 14 The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.
  • Judg 16:5 : 5 And the chiefs of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Make use of your power over him and see what is the secret of his great strength, and how we may get the better of him, and put bands on him, so that we may make him feeble; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.
  • 1 Kgs 11:4 : 4 For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.
  • Neh 13:26 : 26 Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? among a number of nations there was no king like him, and he was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel: but even he was made to do evil by strange women.
  • Job 24:15-16 : 15 And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about; 16 In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.
  • Prov 2:16-19 : 16 To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue; 17 Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind: 18 For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades: 19 Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:
  • Prov 5:3-9 : 3 For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil; 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword; 5 Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld; 6 She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge. 7 Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you. 8 Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house; 9 For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men: 10 And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others; 11 And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted; 12 And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training; 13 I did not give attention to the voice of my teachers, my ear was not turned to those who were guiding me! 14 I was in almost all evil in the company of the people. 15 Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain. 16 Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places. 17 Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you. 18 Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years. 19 As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love. 20 Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms? 21 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales. 22 The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin. 23 He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.

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  • Job 31:10-13
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    10 Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.

    11 For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges:

    12 It would be a fire burning even to destruction, and taking away all my produce.

    13 If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;

  • Job 31:25-27
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    25 If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;

    26 If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way,

    27 A secret feeling of worship came into my heart, and my hand gave kisses from my mouth;

  • Job 31:5-8
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    5 If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit;

    6 (Let me be measured in upright scales, and let God see my righteousness:)

    7 If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;

    8 Let me put seed in the earth for another to have the fruit of it, and let my produce be uprooted.

  • Job 31:33
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    33 If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast,

  • Prov 7:5-6
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    5 So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.

    6 Looking out from my house, and watching through the window,

  • Prov 6:29-30
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    29 So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment.

    30 Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it:

  • Prov 6:24-26
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    24 They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

    25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

    26 For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

  • Job 31:16
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    16 If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;

  • Prov 5:8-9
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    8 Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;

    9 For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:

  • Job 31:20-21
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    20 If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm;

    21 If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;

  • Job 31:38-39
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    38 If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;

    39 If I have taken its produce without payment, causing the death of its owners;

  • Job 31:1
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    1 I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin?

  • Eccl 7:26
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    26 And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.

  • Job 31:29
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    29 If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;

  • Num 5:12-13
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    12 Say to the children of Israel, If any man's wife does wrong, sinning against him

    13 By taking as her lover another man, and keeps it secret so that her husband has no knowledge of it, and there is no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act;

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32 The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!

  • Prov 23:33
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    33 Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.

  • Prov 7:12
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    12 Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.

  • Num 5:20
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    20 But if you have been with another in place of your husband and have made yourself unclean with a lover:

  • Prov 7:8
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    8 Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,

  • Prov 5:20
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    20 Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

  • Prov 7:25
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    25 Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

  • Lam 3:51
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    51 The Lord is unkind to my soul, more than all the daughters of my town.

  • Prov 7:10
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    10 And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart;

  • Num 5:29
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    29 This is the law for testing a wife who goes with another in place of her husband and becomes unclean;

  • Ps 7:3
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    3 O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;

  • Prov 30:20
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    20 This is the way of a false wife; she takes food, and, cleaning her mouth, says, I have done no wrong.

  • Prov 31:11
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    11 The heart of her husband has faith in her, and he will have profit in full measure.

  • Deut 22:14
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    14 And says evil things about her and gives her a bad name, saying, I took this woman, and when I had connection with her it was clear to me that she was not a virgin:

  • Ps 73:15
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    15 If I would make clear what it is like, I would say, You are false to the generation of your children.

  • Exod 22:16
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    16 If a man takes a virgin, who has not given her word to another man, and has connection with her, he will have to give a bride-price for her to be his wife.

  • Ps 141:9
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    9 Keep me from the net which they have put down for me, and from the designs of the workers of evil.

  • Mic 7:5
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    5 Put no faith in a friend, do not let your hope be placed in a relation: keep watch on the doors of your mouth against her who is resting on your breast.

  • Jer 9:2
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    2 If only I had in the waste land a night's resting-place for travellers, so that I might go away, far from my people! for they are all untrue, a band of false men.