Job 31:9

King James Version 1611 (Original)

If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour'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 her hands as 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 in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.
  • Hos 7:4 : 4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
  • Prov 6:25 : 25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
  • Prov 7:21 : 21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
  • Prov 22:14 : 14 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD 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 the LORD 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, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish 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 disguiseth his face. 16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
  • Prov 2:16-19 : 16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; 17 Which forsaketh the guide 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 take they hold of the paths of life.
  • Prov 5:3-9 : 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. 6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. 7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, 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 honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: 10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; 11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, 12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; 13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! 14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. 15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. 16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. 17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. 18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. 19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love. 20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? 21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings. 22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. 23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

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    10 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

    11 For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

    12 For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.

    13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

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    25 If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;

    26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

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

  • Job 31:5-8
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    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 turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;

    8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.

  • 33 If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:

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    5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

    6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

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

    30 Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;

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    24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

    25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

    26 For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

  • 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 honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

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    20 If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

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

  • Job 31:38-39
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    38 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

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

  • 1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

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

  • 29 If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:

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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, neither she be taken with the manner;

  • 32 But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!

  • 33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

  • 12 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

  • 20 But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:

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

  • 20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

  • 25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

  • 51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

  • 10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.

  • 29 This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;

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    3 O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

  • 20 Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.

  • 11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.

  • 14 And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:

  • 15 If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.

  • 16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

  • 9 Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.

  • 5 Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

  • 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 be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.