Job 31:9 Cross References - YLT

⁹ If my heart hath been enticed by woman, And by the opening of my neighbour I laid wait,

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.'

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.

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.

¹⁵ And the eye of an adulterer Hath observed the twilight, Saying, `No eye doth behold me.' And he putteth the face in secret. ¹⁶ He hath dug in the darkness—houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.

¹⁶ To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings, ¹⁷ Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten. ¹⁸ For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths. ¹⁹ None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life.

³ For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil is her mouth, ⁴ And her latter end is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword with mouths. ⁵ Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of. ⁶ The path of life—lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths—thou knowest not. ⁷ And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth. ⁸ Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house, ⁹ Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce, ¹⁰ Lest strangers be filled with thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger, ¹¹ And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food, ¹² And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised, ¹³ And I have not hearkened to the voice of my directors, And to my teachers have not inclined mine ear. ¹⁴ As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company.
¹⁵ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well. ¹⁶ Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters. ¹⁷ Let them be to thee for thyself, And not to strangers with thee. ¹⁸ Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth, ¹⁹ A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually. ²⁰ And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman? ²¹ For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering. ²² His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden. ²³ He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself!

²⁵ Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.

²¹ She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him.

¹⁴ A deep pit is the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.

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.

⁸ Fed horses—they have been early risers, Each to the wife of his neighbour they neigh.

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.