Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“If my heart has been enticed by a woman,
Or I have lurked at my neighbor’s doorway,

King James Version

If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;

Holman Bible

If my heart has been seduced by my neighbor’s wife
or I have lurked at his door,

International Standard Version

"If my heart has been seduced by a woman and I've laid in wait at my friend's door,

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;

Amplified


“If my heart has been enticed and I was made a fool by a woman,
Or if I have [covetously] lurked at my neighbor’s door [until his departure],

Bible in Basic English

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

Darby Translation

If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour's door,

Julia Smith Translation

If my heart was seduced by woman, and I laid wait at the door of my neighbor;

King James 2000

If my heart has been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;

Lexham Expanded Bible

"If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and at my neighbor's doorway I have lain in wait,

Modern King James verseion

If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"If my heart hath lusted after my neighbour's wife, or if I have laid wait at his door:

NET Bible

If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door,

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, or, by the door of my neighbour, I have lien in wait,

Webster

If my heart hath been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
פּתה 
Pathah 
Usage: 28

by a woman
נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

or if I have laid wait
ארב 
'arab 
Usage: 42

at my neighbour's
ריע רע 
Rea` 
Usage: 187

Verse Info

Context Readings

Job's Final Defense Continued

8 Let me sow and another eat,
And let my crops be uprooted.
9 “If my heart has been enticed by a woman,
Or I have lurked at my neighbor’s doorway,
10 May my wife grind for another,
And let others kneel down over her.


Cross References

Judges 16:5

The lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and see where his great strength lies and how we may overpower him that we may bind him to afflict him. Then we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”

1 Kings 11:4

For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away after other gods; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God, as the heart of David his father had been.

Nehemiah 13:26

Did not Solomon king of Israel sin regarding these things? Yet among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless the foreign women caused even him to sin.

Job 24:15-16

“The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight,
Saying, ‘No eye will see me.’
And he disguises his face.

Proverbs 2:16-19

To deliver you from the strange woman,
From the adulteress who flatters with her words;

Proverbs 5:3-23

For the lips of an adulteress drip honey
And smoother than oil is her speech;

Proverbs 6:25

Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
Nor let her capture you with her eyelids.

Proverbs 7:21

With her many persuasions she entices him;
With her flattering lips she seduces him.

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit;
He who is cursed of the Lord will fall into it.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I discovered more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are chains. One who is pleasing to God will escape from her, but the sinner will be captured by her.

Jeremiah 5:8

“They were well-fed lusty horses,
Each one neighing after his neighbor’s wife.

Hosea 7:4

They are all adulterers,
Like an oven heated by the baker
Who ceases to stir up the fire
From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

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