Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid 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,
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,
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 31:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense Continued
8 Let me sow -- and another eat, And my products let be rooted out. 9 If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait, 10 Grind to another let my wife, And over her let others bend.
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Cross References
Judges 16:5
and the princes of the Philistines come up unto her, and say to her, 'Entice him, and see wherein his great power is, and wherein we are able for him -- and we have bound him to afflict him, and we -- we give to thee, each one, eleven hundred silverlings.'
1 Kings 11:4
And it cometh to pass, at the time of the old age of Solomon, his wives have turned aside his heart after other gods, and his heart hath not been perfect with Jehovah his God, like the heart of David his father.
Nehemiah 13:26
By these did not Solomon king of Israel sin? and among the many nations there was no king like him, and beloved by his God he was, and God maketh him king over all Israel -- even him did the strange women cause to sin.
Job 24:15-16
And the eye of an adulterer Hath observed the twilight, Saying, 'No eye doth behold me.' And he putteth the face in secret.
Proverbs 2:16-19
To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,
Proverbs 5:3-23
For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil is her mouth,
Proverbs 6:25
Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.
Proverbs 7:21
She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him.
Proverbs 22:14
A deep pit is the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.
Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart is nets and snares, her hands are bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her.
Jeremiah 5:8
Fed horses -- they have been early risers, Each to the wife of his neighbour they neigh.
Hosea 7:4
All of them are adulterers, Like a burning oven of a baker, He ceaseth from stirring up after kneading the dough, till its leavening.