Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, or, by the door of my neighbour, I have lien in wait,
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,
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,
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 Let me sow but, another, eat. And let, what I have springing up, be uprooted! 9 If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, or, by the door of my neighbour, I have lien in wait, 10 Let my wife, grind to another, and, over her, let others bend!
Names
Cross References
Judges 16:5
So the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said to her - Entice him, and see wherein lieth his great strength, and wherewith we may prevail against him, and bind him, to humble him, - and, we, will give thee, every man, eleven hundred pieces of silver.
1 Kings 11:4
Yea it came to pass, in the old age of Solomon, that, his wives, turned aside his heart after other gods, - his heart therefore was not sound with Yahweh his God, as was the heart of David his father.
Nehemiah 13:26
Was it not, over these things, that Solomon king of Israel sinned - though, among many nations, there was no king such as he, and he was, beloved by his God, and so God gave him to be king over all Israel, - even him, did foreign women, cause to sin.
Job 24:15-16
And, the eye of the adulterer, watcheth for the evening twilight, saying, Not an eye will see me! A covering for the face, he putteth on;
Proverbs 2:16-19
To rescue thee, from the woman that is a stranger, from the female unknown, who with her speeches seduceth;
Proverbs 5:3-23
For, with sweet droppings, drip the lips of her that is a stranger, and, smoother than oil, is her mouth;
Proverbs 6:25
Do not covet her beauty, in thy heart, neither let her take thee, by her eyelashes;
Proverbs 7:21
She turneth him aside, with her great persuasiveness, - with the flattery of her lips, she compelleth him:
Proverbs 22:14
A deep chasm, is the mouth of strange women, he with whom Yahweh is indignant, falleth there.
Ecclesiastes 7:26
I, could indeed find, to be, more bitter than death, the woman, whose heart is, snares and nets, and her hands, bonds, - whoso is pleasing before God, shall escape from her, but, he that sinneth, shall be captured by her.
Jeremiah 5:8
Lusty, well-fed horses, had they become, Every man unto his neighbours wife, would neigh!
Hosea 7:4
They all, are adulterers, like an oven too hot for the baker, - who leaveth off stoking, after kneading the dough, till the whole be leavened.