Job 31:9

Revised Standard Version

"If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
If my heart has gone astray over a womanor I have lurked at my neighbor’s door,

Hebrew Names Version
"If my heart has been enticed to a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;

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

English Standard Version
"If my heart has been enticed toward a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door,

New Century Version
"If I have desired another woman or have waited at my neighbor's door for his wife,

New English Translation
If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door,

Amplified Bible
"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],

New American Standard Bible
"If my heart has been enticed by a woman, Or I have lurked at my neighbor's doorway,

World English Bible
"If my heart has been enticed to a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;

Geneva Bible (1587)
If mine heart hath bene deceiued by a woman, or if I haue layde wayte at the doore of my neighbour,

Legacy Standard Bible
"If my heart has been enticed by a woman,Or I have lied in wait at my neighbor's doorway,

Berean Standard Bible
If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor's wife, or I have lurked at his door,

Contemporary English Version
If I have desired someone's wife and chased after her,

Complete Jewish Bible
"If my heart has been enticed toward a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door;

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

Easy-to-Read Version
"If I have desired another woman or waited at my neighbor's door to sin with his wife,

George Lamsa Translation
And if my heart has been enticed by a strange woman, or if I have lain in wait at my neighbors door;

Good News Translation
If I have been attracted to my neighbor's wife, and waited, hidden, outside her door,

Lexham English Bible
"If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and at my neighbor's doorway I have lain in wait,

Literal Translation
If my heart has been enticed by a woman; or I have laid wait at my neighbor's door,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf my hert hath lusted after my neghbours wife, or yf I haue layed wayte at his dore:

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

Bible in Basic English
If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbour's door;

King James Version (1611)
If mine heart haue bene deceiued by a woman, or if I haue layde wait at my neighbours doore:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
If my heart haue ben deceaued by a woman, or if I haue layde wayte at my neyghbours doore:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
If my heart has gone forth after another man’s wife, and if I laid wait at her doors;

English Revised Version
If mine heart have been enticed unto a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbour's door:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If myn herte was disseyued on a womman, and if Y settide aspies at the dore of my frend; my wijf be the hoore of anothir man,

Update Bible Version
If my heart has been enticed to a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;

Webster's Bible Translation
If my heart hath been deceived by a woman, or [if] I have laid wait at my neighbor's door;

New King James Version
"If my heart has been enticed by a woman, Or if I have lurked at my neighbor's door,

New Living Translation
"If my heart has been seduced by a woman, or if I have lusted for my neighbor's wife,

New Life Bible
"If my heart has been tempted by a woman, or I have waited at my neighbor's door,

New Revised Standard
"If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, or, by the door of my neighbour, I have lien in wait,

Douay-Rheims Bible
If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend’s door:

Young's Literal Translation
If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait,

THE MESSAGE
"If I've let myself be seduced by a woman and conspired to go to bed with her, Fine, my wife has every right to go ahead and sleep with anyone she wants to. For disgusting behavior like that, I'd deserve the worst punishment you could hand out. Adultery is a fire that burns the house down; I wouldn't expect anything I count dear to survive it.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If my heart has been enticed by a woman, Or I have lurked at my neighbor's doorway,

Contextual Overview

⁹ "If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door; ¹⁰ then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her. ¹¹ For that would be a heinous crime; that would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; ¹² for that would be a fire which consumes unto Abaddon, and it would burn to the root all my increase. ¹³ "If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or my maidservant, when they brought a complaint against me; ¹⁴ what then shall I do when God rises up? When he makes inquiry, what shall I answer him? ¹⁵ Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

If mine: Judges 16:5, 1 Kings 11:4, Nehemiah 13:26, Proverbs 2:16-19, Proverbs 5:3-23, Proverbs 6:25, Proverbs 7:21, Proverbs 22:14, Ecclesiastes 7:26

if I: Job 24:15, Job 24:16, Jeremiah 5:8, Hosea 7:4

Reciprocal: Genesis 34:2 - saw her Genesis 39:9 - how then Exodus 20:17 - wife 2 Samuel 11:4 - sent messengers Psalms 50:18 - hast been partaker Proverbs 6:27 - General Ezekiel 22:11 - committed Hosea 4:13 - therefore Matthew 5:28 - That James 1:14 - when 2 Peter 2:14 - eyes

Cross-References

Genesis 31:1
Now Jacob heard that the sons of Laban were saying, "Jacob has taken all that was our father's; and from what was our father's he has gained all this wealth."

Genesis 31:2
And Jacob saw that Laban did not regard him with favor as before.

Genesis 31:16
All the property which God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children; now then, whatever God has said to you, do."

Psalms 50:10
For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.

Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.

Matthew 20:15
Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If mine heart have been deceived by a woman,.... By another man's wife, by wantonly looking at her beauty, and so lusting after her; and so, not through any blame or fault of hers, or by any artful methods made use of by her, to allure and ensnare; such as were practised by the harlot, Proverbs 7:1; but by neither was the heart of Job deceived, and drawn into the sin of uncleanness; for he had made a covenant with his eyes, as not to look at a virgin, so much less at another man's wife, to prevent his lusting after her; and whatever temptations and solicitations he might have been attended with, through the grace of God, as Joseph was, he was enabled to withstand them; though as wise a man, and the wisest of men, had his heart deceived and drawn aside thereby, Ecclesiastes 7:26;

or [if] I have laid wait at my neighbour's door: to meet with his wife there, and carry on an intrigue with her; or to take the opportunity of going in when opened, in order to solicit her to his embraces, knowing her husband to be away from home; see Proverbs 5:8.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If mine heart have been deceived by a woman - If I have been enticed by her beauty. The word rendered “deceived” פתה pâthâh means to open, to expand. It is then applied to that which is open or ingenuous; to that which is unsuspicious - like a youth; and thence is used in the sense of being deceived, or enticed; Deuteronomy 11:16; Exodus 22:16; Proverbs 1:10; Proverbs 16:29. The word “woman” here probably means a married woman, and stands opposed to “virgin” in ver. 1. The crime which he here disclaims is adultery, and he says that his heart had never been allured from conjugal fidelity by the charms or the arts of a woman.

Or if I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door - That is, to watch when he would be absent from home. This was a common practice with those who were guilty of the crime referred to here; compare Proverbs 7:8-9.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 31:9. If mine heart have been deceived by a woman — The Septuagint add, ανδρος ετερου, another man's wife.