Job 31:9

Geneva Bible (1560)

If mine heart hath bene deceiued by a woman, or if I haue layde wayte at the doore of my neighbour,

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  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 (7:28) And I finde more bitter then death the woman whose heart is as nettes and snares, and her handes, as bands: he that is good before God, shalbe deliuered from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.
  • Jer 5:8 : 8 They rose vp in the morning like fed horses: for euery man neyed after his neighbours wife.
  • Hos 7:4 : 4 They are all adulterers, and as a very ouen heated by ye baker, which ceaseth from raysing vp, and from kneading ye dough vntill it be leauened.
  • Prov 6:25 : 25 Desire not her beautie in thine heart, neither let her take thee with her eye lids.
  • Prov 7:21 : 21 Thus with her great craft she caused him to yeelde, and with her flattering lips she entised him.
  • Prov 22:14 : 14 The mouth of strage women is as a deepe pit: he with whom the Lord is angry, shall fall therein.
  • Judg 16:5 : 5 Vnto whome came the princes of the Philistims, and said vnto her, Entise him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what meane we may ouercome him, that we may binde him, and punish him, and euery one of vs shall giue thee eleuen hundreth shekels of siluer.
  • 1 Kgs 11:4 : 4 For 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.
  • Neh 13:26 : 26 Did not Salomon the king of Israel sinne by these thinges? yet among many nations was there no King like him: for he was beloued of his God, and God had made him King ouer Israel: yet strange women caused him to sinne.
  • Job 24:15-16 : 15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, and sayth, None eye shal see me, and disguiseth his face. 16 They digge through houses in the darke, which they marked for themselues in the daye: they knowe not the light.
  • Prov 2:16-19 : 16 And it shall deliuer thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger, which flattereth with her wordes. 17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the couenant of her God. 18 Surely her house tendeth to death, and her paths vnto the dead. 19 All they that goe vnto her, returne not againe, neither take they holde of the wayes of life.
  • Prov 5:3-9 : 3 For the lippes of a strange woman drop as an honie combe, and her mouth is more soft then oyle. 4 But the end of her is bitter as wormewood, and sharpe as a two edged sworde. 5 Her feete goe downe to death, and her steps take holde on hell. 6 She weigheth not the way of life: her paths are moueable: thou canst not knowe them. 7 Heare yee me nowe therefore, O children, and depart not from the wordes of my mouth. 8 Keepe thy way farre from her, and come not neere the doore of her house, 9 Least thou giue thine honor vnto others, and thy yeeres to the cruell: 10 Least the stranger should be silled with thy strength, and thy labours bee in the house of a stranger, 11 And thou mourne at thine end, (when thou hast consumed thy flesh and thy bodie) 12 And say, How haue I hated instruction, and mine heart despised correction! 13 And haue not obeied the voyce of them that taught mee, nor enclined mine eare to them that instructed me! 14 I was almost brought into all euil in ye mids of the Congregation and assemblie. 15 Drinke the water of thy cisterne, and of the riuers out of the middes of thine owne well. 16 Let thy fountaines flow foorth, and the riuers of waters in the streetes. 17 But let them bee thine, euen thine onely, and not the strangers with thee. 18 Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy youth. 19 Let her be as the louing hinde and pleasant roe: let her brests satisfie thee at all times, and delite in her loue continually. 20 For why shouldest thou delite, my sonne, in a strange woman, or embrace the bosome of a stranger? 21 For the waies of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his pathes. 22 His owne iniquities shall take the wicked himselfe, and he shall be holden with the cordes of his owne sinne. 23 Hee shall die for faute of instruction, and shall goe astraie through his great follie.

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    24To keepe thee from the wicked woman, & from ye flatterie of ye tongue of a strange woman.

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    16If I restrained the poore of their desire, or haue caused the eyes of the widow to faile,

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    8Keepe thy way farre from her, and come not neere the doore of her house,

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    20If his loynes haue not blessed me, because he was warmed with the fleece of my sheepe,

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    26(7:28) And I finde more bitter then death the woman whose heart is as nettes and snares, and her handes, as bands: he that is good before God, shalbe deliuered from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.

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    29If I reioyced at his destruction that hated me, or was mooued to ioye when euill came vpon him,

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    12Speake vnto the children of Israel, and say vnto them, If any mans wife turne to euill, and commit a trespasse against him,

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    32But as a wife that playeth the harlot, and taketh others for her husband:

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    33Thine eyes shall looke vpon strange women, and thine heart shall speake lewde things.

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    12Nowe she is without, nowe in the streetes, and lyeth in waite at euery corner)

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    20But if thou hast turned fro thine husband, and so art defiled, and some man hath lyen with thee beside thine husband,

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    8Who passed through the streete by her corner, and went toward her house,

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    20For why shouldest thou delite, my sonne, in a strange woman, or embrace the bosome of a stranger?

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    25Let not thine heart decline to her wayes: wander thou not in her paths.

  • Lam 3:51
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    51Mine eye breaketh mine heart because of all the daughters of my citie.

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    10And beholde, there met him a woman with an harlots behauiour, and subtill in heart.

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    29This is the law of ielousie, when a wife turneth from her husband and is defiled,

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    3O Lorde my God, if I haue done this thing, if there be any wickednes in mine handes,

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    20Such is ye way also of an adulterous woman: she eateth and wipeth her mouth, and sayth, I haue not committed iniquitie.

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    11The heart of her husbande trusteth in her, and he shall haue no neede of spoyle.

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    14And laye slaunderous thinges vnto her charge, and bring vp an euill name vpon her, and say, I tooke this wife, and when I came to her, I found her not a mayde,

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    15If I say, I will iudge thus, beholde the generation of thy children: I haue trespassed.

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    16And if a man entise a maide that is not betrothed, and lie with her, hee shall endowe her, and take her to his wife.

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    9Keepe me from the snare, which they haue layde for me, and from the grennes of the workers of iniquitie.

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    5Trust ye not in a friend, neither put ye confidence in a counseller: keepe the doores of thy mouth from her that lyeth in thy bosome.

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    2Oh, that I had in the wildernes a cottage of wayfaring men, that I might leaue my people, and go from them: for they be all adulterers & an assembly of rebels,