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Job 31:9

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

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ASV

If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door;

KJV

If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
אִם־'im-ifH518 →
נִפְתָּ֣הnif.Tahit has been deceivedH6601 →
לִ֭בִּיLi.biheart myH3820 →
עַל־'al-onH5921 →
אִשָּׁ֑ה'i.Shaha womanH802 →
וְעַל־ve.'al-and atH5921 →
פֶּ֖תַחPe.tach[the] doorway ofH6607 →
רֵעִ֣יre.'Ineighbor myH7453 →
אָרָֽבְתִּי׃'a.Ra.ve.tiI have lain in waitH693 →

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James 1:14But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.Matthew 5:28But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.1 Kings 11:4For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.Exodus 20:17You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”Ecclesiastes 7:26And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.Judges 16:5The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”Hosea 7:4They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.Job 24:15–16The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.Proverbs 22:14The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.Proverbs 6:25Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.Nehemiah 13:26Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all Israel—yet foreign women drew him into sin.Proverbs 2:16–19It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive wordsJeremiah 5:8They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.Genesis 34:2When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.Proverbs 5:3–23Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,Proverbs 7:21With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures him.2 Peter 2:14Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.

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Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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