Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
"If my heart has been seduced by a woman and I've laid in wait at my friend'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,
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
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Pathah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 31:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense Continued
8 what I've planted, let another eat or let my crops be uprooted." 9 "If my heart has been seduced by a woman and I've laid in wait at my friend's door, 10 then let my wife cook for another person and may someone else sleep with her,
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Cross References
Judges 16:5
The Philistine officials approached her and told her, "Entice him to discover where his great strength is, and how we can overpower him. We intend to tie him up and torture him. We'll each pay you 1,100 silver coins."
1 Kings 11:4
because as Solomon grew older, his wives turned his affections away after other gods, and his heart was not fully as devoted to the LORD his God as his father David's heart had been.
Nehemiah 13:26
Didn't Solomon, king of Israel, sin by doing these things, even though among many nations there was no king like him who was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel? Even so, foreign women caused him to sin.
Job 24:15-16
The adulterer watches for twilight, saying, "No eye is watching me' while he veils his face.
Proverbs 2:16-19
delivering you from the adulteress, from the immoral woman with her seductive words,
Proverbs 5:3-23
For the lips of an adulteress drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil.
Proverbs 6:25
Do not focus on her beauty in your mind, nor allow her to take you prisoner with her flirting eyes,
Proverbs 7:21
She leads him astray with great persuasion; with flattering lips she seduces him.
Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit; a man experiencing the LORD's wrath will fall into it.
Ecclesiastes 7:26
I discovered for myself a bitterness that surpasses that of death: the woman whose heart is full of snares and nets, whose hands are chains of bondage. Whoever pleases God will escape from her, but the transgressor will be trapped by her.
Jeremiah 5:8
They were well-fed, lusty stallions, each one neighing after his neighbor's wife.
Hosea 7:4
All of them are adulterers they burn like an oven prepared by the baker, who has ceased stoking it until the dough is leavened.