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

“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;

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
Then let me plant and [let] another eat [from the results of my labor],
And let my crops be uprooted and ruined.
9 
“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],
10
Let my wife grind [meal, like a bond slave] for another [man],
And let others kneel down over her.


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.

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