Parallel Verses
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],
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,
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;
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 plant and [let] another eat [from the results of my labor],
And let my crops be uprooted and ruined.
“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],
Let my wife grind [meal, like a bond slave] for another [man],
And let others
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Cross References
Judges 16:5
So the [five] lords (governors) of the Philistines came to her and said to her, “Persuade him, and see where his great strength lies and [find out] how we may overpower him so that we may bind him to subdue him. And each of us will 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 completely devoted to the Lord his God, as was the heart of his father David.
Nehemiah 13:26
Did not Solomon king of Israel sin [greatly against God] regarding these things? Yet among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless the foreign women caused even him to sin [by turning to other gods and so, judged by God, he lost his kingdom].
Job 24:15-16
“The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight,
Saying, ‘No eye will see me,’
And he covers his face.
Proverbs 2:16-19
To keep you from the immoral woman;
From the seductress with her flattering words,
Proverbs 5:3-23
For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey [like a honeycomb]
And her speech is smoother than oil;
Proverbs 6:25
Do not desire (lust after) her beauty in your heart,
Nor let her capture you with her eyelashes.
Proverbs 7:21
With her many persuasions she caused him to yield;
With her flattering lips she seduced him.
Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit [deep and inescapable];
He who is cursed by the Lord [because of his adulterous sin] will fall into it.
Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I discovered that [of all irrational sins none has been so destructive in beguiling one away from God as immoral women for] more bitter than death is the woman whose heart is [composed of] snares and nets, and whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God will escape from her, but the sinner will be taken captive by her [evil].
Jeremiah 5:8
“They were like well-fed, lusty stallions,
Each one neighing after his neighbor’s wife.
Hosea 7:4
They are all adulterers;
Like the heat of an oven
When the baker ceases to stir the fire, [their passion smolders]
From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.