Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

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

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;

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 someone else eat what I have sown,
and let my crops be uprooted.
9 If my heart has been seduced by my neighbor’s wife
or I have lurked at his door,
10 let my own wife grind grain for another man,
and let other men sleep with her.


Cross References

Judges 16:5

The Philistine leaders went to her and said, “Persuade him to tell you where his great strength comes from, so we can overpower him, tie him up, and make him helpless. Each of us will then give you 1,100 pieces of silver.”

1 Kings 11:4

When Solomon was old, his wives seduced him to follow other gods. He was not completely devoted to Yahweh his God, as his father David had been.

Nehemiah 13:26

Didn’t King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations. He was loved by his God and God made him king over all Israel, yet foreign women drew him into sin.

Job 24:15-16

The adulterer’s eye watches for twilight,
thinking: No eye will see me;
he covers his face.

Proverbs 2:16-19

It will rescue you from a forbidden woman,
from a stranger with her flattering talk,

Proverbs 5:3-23

Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey
and her words are smoother than oil,

Proverbs 6:25

Don’t lust in your heart for her beauty
or let her captivate you with her eyelashes.

Proverbs 7:21

She seduces him with her persistent pleading;
she lures with her flattering talk.

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of the forbidden woman is a deep pit;
a man cursed by the Lord will fall into it.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, her heart a net, and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her.

Jeremiah 5:8

They are well-fed, eager stallions,
each neighing after someone else’s wife.

Hosea 7:4

All of them commit adultery;
they are like an oven heated by a baker
who stops stirring the fire
from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

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