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Job 31

Job 31:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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If mine heart
leb (Hebrew #3820)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV usage: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
Pronounce: labe
Origin: a form of 3824
have been deceived
pathah (Hebrew #6601)
to open, i.e. be (causatively, make) roomy; usually figuratively (in a mental or moral sense) to be (causatively, make) simple or (in a sinister way) delude
KJV usage: allure, deceive, enlarge, entice, flatter, persuade, silly (one).
Pronounce: paw-thaw'
Origin: a primitive root
by a woman
'ishshah (Hebrew #802)
irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman (used in the same wide sense as 582)
KJV usage: (adulter)ess, each, every, female, X many, + none, one, + together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
Pronounce: ish-shaw'
Origin: feminine of 376 or 582
, or if I have laid wait
'arab (Hebrew #693)
to lurk
KJV usage: (lie in) ambush(-ment), lay (lie in) wait.
Pronounce: aw-rab'
Origin: a primitive root
at my neighbor’s
rea` (Hebrew #7453)
from 7462; an associate (more or less close)
KJV usage: brother, companion, fellow, friend, husband, lover, neighbour, X (an-)other.
Pronounce: ray'-ah
Origin: or reya2 {ray'-ah}
door
pethach (Hebrew #6607)
an opening (literally), i.e. door (gate) or entrance way
KJV usage: door, entering (in), entrance (-ry), gate, opening, place.
Pronounce: peh'-thakh
Origin: from 6605
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Judg. 16:5• 5And 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. (Judg. 16:5)
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1 Kings 11:4• 4For 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. (1 Kings 11:4)
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Neh. 13:26• 26Did 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. (Neh. 13:26)
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Prov. 2:16‑19• 16To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
 17Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
 18For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
 19None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life. (Prov. 2:16‑19)
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Prov. 5:3‑23• 3For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
 4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
 5Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
 6Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
 7Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
 8Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
 9Lest thou give thine honor unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
 10Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labors be in the house of a stranger;
 11And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
 12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
 13And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
 14I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
 15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
 16Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
 17Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
 18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
 19Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
 20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
 21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.
 22His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
 23He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. (Prov. 5:3‑23)
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Prov. 6:25• 25Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. (Prov. 6:25)
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Prov. 7:21• 21With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. (Prov. 7:21)
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Prov. 22:14• 14The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein. (Prov. 22:14)
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Eccl. 7:26• 26And 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. (Eccl. 7:26)
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Job 24:15‑16• 15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
 16In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light. (Job 24:15‑16)
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Jer. 5:8• 8They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbor's wife. (Jer. 5:8)
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Hos. 7:4• 4They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened. (Hos. 7:4)
• {He} returns to the general subject with which he began, and dwells upon the sin of adultery against a neighbor (vers. 9-12). (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)
• He was arraying himself rather than giving glory to God. Doubtless at bottom he was a man of genuine piety, but it is not glory to set forth one’s own glory. (“Job 3-31” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, so that I laid wait at my neighbour’s door,