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Job 31:9
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If my heart has gone astray over a womanor I have lurked at my neighbor’s door,
"If my heart has been enticed to a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;
If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;
"If my heart has been enticed toward a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door,
"If I have desired another woman or have waited at my neighbor's door for his wife,
If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door,
"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],
"If my heart has been enticed by a woman, Or I have lurked at my neighbor's doorway,
"If my heart has been enticed to a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;
If mine heart hath bene deceiued by a woman, or if I haue layde wayte at the doore of my neighbour,
"If my heart has been enticed by a woman,Or I have lied in wait at my neighbor's doorway,
If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor's wife, or I have lurked at his door,
"If my heart has been enticed toward a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door;
If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour's door,
"If I have desired another woman or waited at my neighbor's door to sin with his wife,
And if my heart has been enticed by a strange woman, or if I have lain in wait at my neighbors door;
If I have been attracted to my neighbor's wife, and waited, hidden, outside her door,
"If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and at my neighbor's doorway I have lain in wait,
If my heart has been enticed by a woman; or I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,
Yf my hert hath lusted after my neghbours wife, or yf I haue layed wayte at his dore:
If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;
If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;
If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbour's door;
If mine heart haue bene deceiued by a woman, or if I haue layde wait at my neighbours doore:
If my heart haue ben deceaued by a woman, or if I haue layde wayte at my neyghbours doore:
If my heart has gone forth after another man’s wife, and if I laid wait at her doors;
If mine heart have been enticed unto a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbour's door:
If myn herte was disseyued on a womman, and if Y settide aspies at the dore of my frend; my wijf be the hoore of anothir man,
If my heart has been enticed to a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;
If my heart hath been deceived by a woman, or [if] I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;
"If my heart has been enticed by a woman, Or if I have lurked at my neighbor's door,
"If my heart has been seduced by a woman, or if I have lusted for my neighbor's wife,
"If my heart has been tempted by a woman, or I have waited at my neighbor's door,
"If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door;
If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, or, by the door of my neighbour, I have lien in wait,
If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend’s door:
"If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door;
If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait,
"If I've let myself be seduced by a woman and conspired to go to bed with her, Fine, my wife has every right to go ahead and sleep with anyone she wants to. For disgusting behavior like that, I'd deserve the worst punishment you could hand out. Adultery is a fire that burns the house down; I wouldn't expect anything I count dear to survive it.
"If my heart has been enticed by a woman, Or I have lurked at my neighbor's doorway,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
If mine: Judges 16:5, 1 Kings 11:4, Nehemiah 13:26, Proverbs 2:16-19, Proverbs 5:3-23, Proverbs 6:25, Proverbs 7:21, Proverbs 22:14, Ecclesiastes 7:26
if I: Job 24:15, Job 24:16, Jeremiah 5:8, Hosea 7:4
Reciprocal: Genesis 34:2 - saw her Genesis 39:9 - how then Exodus 20:17 - wife 2 Samuel 11:4 - sent messengers Psalms 50:18 - hast been partaker Proverbs 6:27 - General Ezekiel 22:11 - committed Hosea 4:13 - therefore Matthew 5:28 - That James 1:14 - when 2 Peter 2:14 - eyes
Cross-References
Jacob heard that Laban's sons were complaining, "Jacob is now a rich man, and he got everything he owns from our father."
Jacob also noticed that Laban was not as friendly as he had been before.
Now do whatever God tells you to do. Even the property God took from our father and gave to you really belongs to us and our children.
Every animal in the forest belongs to me, and so do the cattle on a thousand hills.
If you obey God, you will have something to leave your grandchildren. If you don't obey God, those who live right will get what you leave.
Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Why should you be jealous, if I want to be generous?"
Gill's Notes on the Bible
If mine heart have been deceived by a woman,.... By another man's wife, by wantonly looking at her beauty, and so lusting after her; and so, not through any blame or fault of hers, or by any artful methods made use of by her, to allure and ensnare; such as were practised by the harlot, Proverbs 7:1; but by neither was the heart of Job deceived, and drawn into the sin of uncleanness; for he had made a covenant with his eyes, as not to look at a virgin, so much less at another man's wife, to prevent his lusting after her; and whatever temptations and solicitations he might have been attended with, through the grace of God, as Joseph was, he was enabled to withstand them; though as wise a man, and the wisest of men, had his heart deceived and drawn aside thereby, Ecclesiastes 7:26;
or [if] I have laid wait at my neighbour's door: to meet with his wife there, and carry on an intrigue with her; or to take the opportunity of going in when opened, in order to solicit her to his embraces, knowing her husband to be away from home; see Proverbs 5:8.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
If mine heart have been deceived by a woman - If I have been enticed by her beauty. The word rendered âdeceivedâ ×¤×ª× paÌthaÌh means to open, to expand. It is then applied to that which is open or ingenuous; to that which is unsuspicious - like a youth; and thence is used in the sense of being deceived, or enticed; Deuteronomy 11:16; Exodus 22:16; Proverbs 1:10; Proverbs 16:29. The word âwomanâ here probably means a married woman, and stands opposed to âvirginâ in ver. 1. The crime which he here disclaims is adultery, and he says that his heart had never been allured from conjugal fidelity by the charms or the arts of a woman.
Or if I have laid wait at my neighborâs door - That is, to watch when he would be absent from home. This was a common practice with those who were guilty of the crime referred to here; compare Proverbs 7:8-9.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 31:9. If mine heart have been deceived by a woman — The Septuagint add, ανδÏÎ¿Ï ÎµÏεÏÎ¿Ï , another man's wife.
