Job 31:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

If my heart has been deceived by a woman, or if I have lain in 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 her hands are chains. He who pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be trapped by her.
  • Jer 5:8 : 8 They were like well-fed horses in the morning: everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife.
  • Hos 7:4 : 4 They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker, who ceases from stirring after he has kneaded the dough, until it is leavened.
  • Prov 6:25 : 25 Do not lust after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids.
  • Prov 7:21 : 21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield; with the flattering of her lips she prevailed over him.
  • Prov 22:14 : 14 The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit; he who is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
  • Judg 16:5 : 5 And the lords of the Philistines came to her and said, "Entice him, and find out where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, so that we may bind him and afflict him. Every one of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver."
  • 1 Kgs 11:4 : 4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned 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 King Solomon of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless, pagan women caused even him to sin.
  • Job 24:15-16 : 15 The eye of the adulterer waits for twilight, saying, No eye shall see me, and disguises his face. 16 In the dark they break into houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.
  • Prov 2:16-19 : 16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words; 17 Who forsakes the guide of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God. 18 For her house leads down to death, and her paths to the dead. 19 None who go to her return again, nor do they take hold of the paths of life.
  • Prov 5:3-9 : 3 For the lips of a strange woman drip as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. 6 Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are unstable, so that you cannot know them. 7 Hear me now therefore, O children, and do not depart from the words of my mouth. 8 Remove your way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house: 9 Lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel: 10 Lest strangers be filled with your wealth, and your labors be in the house of a stranger; 11 And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your 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 my ear to those who instructed me! 14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. 15 Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well. 16 Let your fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of water in the streets. 17 Let them be only your own, and not strangers' with you. 18 Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth. 19 Let her be as the loving deer and graceful doe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be ravished always with her love. 20 And why will you, 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 ponders all his paths. 22 His own iniquities shall capture the wicked, and he shall be held 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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  • Job 31:10-13
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    10Then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.

    11For this would be a heinous crime; yes, it is an iniquity to be judged.

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

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

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

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

    27And my heart was secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand:

  • Job 31:5-8
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    5If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hurried to deceit;

    6Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity.

    7If my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any stain has cleaved to my hands;

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

  • Job 31:33
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    33If I covered my transgressions like Adam, by hiding my iniquity in my heart;

  • Prov 7:5-6
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    5That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.

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

  • Prov 6:29-30
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    29So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; whoever touches her shall not be innocent.

    30Men do not despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry;

  • Prov 6:24-26
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    72%

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

    25Do not lust after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids.

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

  • Job 31:16
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    16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

  • Prov 5:8-9
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    8Remove your way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house:

    9Lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel:

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

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

  • Job 31:38-39
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    38If my land cries against me, or its furrows likewise complain;

    39If I have eaten its fruits without payment, or caused the owners to lose their life;

  • Job 31:1
    71%

    1I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I gaze upon a maiden?

  • Eccl 7:26
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    26And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands are chains. He who pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be trapped by her.

  • Job 31:29
    71%

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

  • Num 5:12-13
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    70%

    12Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, If any man's wife goes astray and acts unfaithfully against him,

    13And a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected, though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, nor is she caught in the act;

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32But as a wife that commits adultery, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

  • Prov 23:33
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    33Your eyes shall see strange things, and your heart shall utter perverse things.

  • Prov 7:12
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    12Sometimes she is outside, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.

  • Num 5:20
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    20But if you have gone aside to another instead of your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:

  • Prov 7:8
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    8Passing through the street near her corner, and he went the way to her house,

  • Prov 5:20
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    20And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

  • Prov 7:25
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    25Let not your heart incline to her ways, do not stray in her paths.

  • Lam 3:51
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    51My eye affects my heart because of all the daughters of my city.

  • Prov 7:10
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    10And it happened, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.

  • Num 5:29
    69%

    29This is the law of jealousy, when a wife goes aside to another instead of her husband and defiles herself;

  • Ps 7:3
    69%

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

  • Prov 30:20
    69%

    20Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats and wipes her mouth and says, I have done no wrong.

  • Prov 31:11
    69%

    11The heart of her husband safely trusts in her, so he will have no lack of gain.

  • Deut 22:14
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    14And gives occasions of speech against her, and brings up an evil name upon her, and says, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a virgin.

  • Ps 73:15
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    15If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I would offend against the generation of Your children.

  • Exod 22:16
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    16If a man entices a maid who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

  • Ps 141:9
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    9Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, and the traps of the workers of iniquity.

  • Mic 7:5
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    5Do not trust in a friend, put no confidence in a guide: keep the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom.

  • Jer 9:2
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    2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place for travelers; that I might leave my people and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.