Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,
New American Standard Bible
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
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,
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
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Pathah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 31:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense Continued
8 then let me sow, and let another eat, yea, let the produce of my field be rooted out. 9 If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor's door, 10 then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down upon her.
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Cross References
Judges 16:5
And the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Entice him, and see in what his great strength lays, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him. And we will give thee every o
1 Kings 11:4
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 LORD his God as was the heart of David his father.
Nehemiah 13:26
Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet there was no king like him among many nations, 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
The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me. And he disguises his face.
Proverbs 2:16-19
to deliver thee from the interloping woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words,
Proverbs 5:3-23
For the lips of an interloping woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil.
Proverbs 6:25
Do not lust after her beauty in thy heart, nor let her take thee with her eyelids.
Proverbs 7:21
With her much fair speech she causes him to yield. With the flattering of her lips she forces him along.
Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of interloping women is a deep pit. He who is abhorred of LORD shall fall in it.
Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, [and] whose hands are chains. He who pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Jeremiah 5:8
They were as fed horses roaming at large; everyone neighed after his neighbor's wife.
Hosea 7:4
They are all adulterers. They are as an oven heated by the baker. He ceases to stir [the fire], from the kneading of the dough, until it is leavened.