Cross references
Job 31:9
If my heart has been enticed by my neighbor’s wife,
or I have lurked at his door,
Job 31:9 has 12 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 1 Kings 11:4 (5 votes) and Judges 16:5 (4 votes). 20 other verses point back to it. It links with 17 other books, from Genesis 34 to 2 Peter 2.
Which verses does Job 31:9 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- 1 Kings 11:45 votes
For when Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and he was not wholeheartedly devoted to the LORD his God, as his father David had been.
- Judges 16:54 votes
The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”
- Ecclesiastes 7:264 votes
And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.
- Nehemiah 13:263 votes
Did not King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations, and he was loved by his God, who made him king over all Israel—yet foreign women drew him into sin.
- Job 24:15–163 votes
The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face. In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.
- Proverbs 2:16–193 votes
It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God. …
- Proverbs 6:253 votes
Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.
- Proverbs 22:143 votes
The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.
- Jeremiah 5:83 votes
They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife.
- Hosea 7:43 votes
They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by a baker who needs not stoke the fire from the kneading to the rising of the dough.
- Proverbs 5:3–232 votes
- Proverbs 7:212 votes
Which verses point to Job 31:9?
The 10 strongest of 20.