Job 31:9 Cross References - JPS_ASV_Byz

⁹ If my heart have been enticed unto a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbour's door;

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.'

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 whole with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.

²⁶ Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless even him did the foreign women cause to sin.

¹⁵ The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying: 'No eye shall see me'; and he putteth a covering on his face. ¹⁶ In the dark they dig through houses; they shut themselves up in the day-time; they know not the light.

¹⁶ To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the alien woman that maketh smooth her words; ¹⁷ That forsaketh the lord of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. ¹⁸ For her house sinketh down unto death, and her paths unto the shades; ¹⁹ None that go unto her return, neither do they attain unto the paths of life;

³ For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil; ⁴ But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. ⁵ Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on the nether-world; ⁶ Lest she should walk the even path of life, her ways wander, but she knoweth it not. ⁷ Now therefore, O ye children, hearken unto me, and depart not from the words of my mouth. ⁸ Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house; ⁹ Lest thou give thy vigour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel; ¹⁰ Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in the house of an alien; ¹¹ And thou moan, when thine end cometh, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, ¹² And say: 'How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; ¹³ Neither have I hearkened to the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! ¹⁴ I was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.' ¹⁵ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. ¹⁶ Let thy springs be dispersed abroad, and courses of water in the streets. ¹⁷ Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. ¹⁸ Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth. ¹⁹ A lovely hind and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; with her love be thou ravished always. ²⁰ Why then wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of an alien? ²¹ For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and He maketh even all his paths. ²² His own iniquities shall ensnare the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin. ²³ He shall die for lack of instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall reel.

²⁵ Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; neither let her captivate thee with her eyelids.

²¹ With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield, with the blandishment of her lips she enticeth him away.

¹⁴ The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

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.

⁸ They are become as well-fed horses, lusty stallions; every one neigheth after his neighbour's wife.

⁴ They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth to stir from the kneading of the dough until it be leavened.