9If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;
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For 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.
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.
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.
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-15)Two more instances we have here of Job’s integrity:— I. That he had a very great abhorrence of the sin of adultery. As he did not wrong his own marriage bed by keeping a concubine (he did not so much as think upon a maid, Job 31:1), so he was careful not to offer any injury to his neighbour’s marriage bed. Let us see here, 1. How clear he was from this sin, Job 31:9. (1.) He did not so much as cov…
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