Job 31:9
If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;
KJV
Si deceptum est cor meum super muliere, et si ad ostium amici mei insidiatus sum,
Vulgate
εἰ ἐξηκολούθησεν ἡ καρδία μου γυναικὶ ἀνδρὸς ἑτέρου, εἰ καὶ ἐνκάθετος ἐγενόμην ἐπὶ θύραις αὐτῆς·
LXX
If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door;
ASV
אִם נִפְתָּ֣ה לִ֭בִּ/י עַל אִשָּׁ֑ה וְ/עַל פֶּ֖תַח רֵעִ֣/י אָרָֽבְתִּי
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אִם
'm
conjunction · 1065×
אֹרֵ֖ב
'rb
verb · 41×
הוּ
hv
noun · 186×
וֹ
v
noun · 780×
י
y
noun · 591×
יְפַתֶּה֙
ypth
verb · 28×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
פֶּ֖תַח
ptch
noun · 162×
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 11:4 — For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
- Eccl 7:26 — And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
- Exod 20:17 — Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
- Gen 34:2 — And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
- Gen 39:9 — There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
- Hos 7:4 — They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.
- Jas 1:14 — But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
- Jer 5:8 — They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.
- Job 24:15 — The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
- Judg 16:5 — And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflic
- Matt 5:28 — But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
- Neh 13:26 — Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outl
- Prov 2:16 — To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
- Prov 6:25 — Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
- Prov 6:27 — Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
- Prov 22:14 — The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.