Job 31:9

Louis Segond

Si mon coeur a été séduit par une femme, Si j'ai fait le guet à la porte de mon prochain,

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Si mon cœur a été séduit par quelque femme, et si j'ai fait le guet à la porte de mon prochain,

Darby's French Translation
Si mon coeur s'est laissé attirer vers une femme et que j'aie fait le guet à la porte de mon prochain,

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Si mon cœur a été séduit après quelque femme, et si j'ai demeuré en embûche à la porte de mon prochain,

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

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.