Parallel Verses

King James Version

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

New American Standard Bible

“If my heart has been enticed by a woman,
Or I have lurked at my neighbor’s doorway,

Holman Bible

If my heart has been seduced by my neighbor’s wife
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,

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
פּתה 
Pathah 
Usage: 28

by a woman
נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

or if I have laid wait
ארב 
'arab 
Usage: 42

at my neighbour's
ריע רע 
Rea` 
Usage: 187

Verse Info

Context Readings

Job's Final Defense Continued

8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out. 9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; 10 Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.


Cross References

Judges 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 afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.

1 Kings 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.

Nehemiah 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 outlandish women cause to sin.

Job 24:15-16

The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

Proverbs 2:16-19

To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

Proverbs 5:3-23

For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

Proverbs 6:25

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

Proverbs 7:21

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

Ecclesiastes 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.

Jeremiah 5:8

They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.

Hosea 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.

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