Job 31:9

World English Bible (2000)

"If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,

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  • Eccl 7:26 : 26 I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
  • Jer 5:8 : 8 They were as fed horses roaming at large: everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife.
  • Hos 7:4 : 4 They are all adulterers. They are burning like an oven that the baker stops stirring, from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.
  • Prov 6:25 : 25 Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
  • Prov 7:21 : 21 With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
  • Prov 22:14 : 14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: he who is under Yahweh's wrath will fall into it.
  • Judg 16:5 : 5 The lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, "Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will each give you eleven hundred [pieces] of silver."
  • 1 Kgs 11:4 : 4 For it happened, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as was the heart of David his father.
  • Neh 13:26 : 26 Didn't 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 foreign women caused even him to sin.
  • Job 24:15-16 : 15 The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, 'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face. 16 In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.
  • Prov 2:16-19 : 16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words; 17 who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God: 18 for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead. 19 None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:
  • Prov 5:3-9 : 3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil, 4 But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword. 5 Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol. 6 She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn't know it. 7 Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don't depart from the words of my mouth. 8 Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her house, 9 lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one; 10 lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man's house. 11 You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed, 12 and say, "How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; 13 neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me! 14 I have come to the brink of utter ruin, in the midst of the gathered assembly." 15 Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well. 16 Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares? 17 Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you. 18 Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. 19 A loving doe and a graceful deer-- let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love. 20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another? 21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh. He examines all his paths. 22 The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly. 23 He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

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  • 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 seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,

    27 and my heart has been secretly enticed, and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,

  • Job 31:5-8
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    5 "If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit

    6 (let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);

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    8 then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, 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 my iniquity in my heart,

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

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

  • Prov 6:29-30
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    29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.

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  • Prov 6:24-26
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    24 to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

    25 Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

    26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

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

  • Prov 5:8-9
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    8 Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her house,

    9 lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;

  • Job 31:20-21
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    20 if his heart hasn't blessed me, if he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;

    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 cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;

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  • Job 31:1
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    1 "I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

  • Eccl 7:26
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    26 I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

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

  • Num 5:12-13
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    12 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them: 'If any man's wife goes astray, and is unfaithful to him,

    13 and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and is kept close, and she is defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she isn't taken in the act;

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32 A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!

  • Prov 23:33
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    33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.

  • Prov 7:12
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    12 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.

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    20 But if you have gone astray, being under your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband:"

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    8 passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,

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    20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

  • Prov 7:25
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    25 Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths,

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

  • Prov 7:10
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    10 Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.

  • Num 5:29
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    29 "'This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goes astray, and is defiled;

  • Ps 7:3
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    3 Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,

  • Prov 30:20
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    20 "So is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, 'I have done nothing wrong.'

  • Prov 31:11
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    11 The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.

  • Deut 22:14
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    14 and accuses her of shameful things, and brings up an evil name on her, and says, "I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn't find in her the tokens of virginity;"

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    15 If I had said, "I will speak thus;" behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

  • Exod 22:16
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    16 "If a man entices a virgin who isn't pledged to be married, and lies 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, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

  • Mic 7:5
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    5 Don't trust in a neighbor. Don't put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

  • Jer 9:2
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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.