Lurking

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Title: Lurking ------------- Date: 09/09/1998

 

Keywords: "enticement" "Job" "lurking" "shame" "wife"


 

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Read the following Bible passage, then answer the short questions. Consider the comments at the end of the study.

Passage: Job 31:9-11*

9. If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or if I have lurked at my neighbor's door,

10. then may my wife grind another man's grain, and may other men sleep with her.

11. For that would have been shameful, a sin to be judged.

Questions

1. What is the best way to avoid being enticed by another woman?

 

2. Is there a similarity between lurking at someone's door and secretly viewing web porn?

 

3. The writer indicates that such "lurking" would be the same as allowing other men to sleep with his wife. Does this cause you to reconsider the impact of your web porn visits on others you love?

 

Helpful hints

The writer says that it would be shameful for him to be enticed by another woman. Maybe you are feeling some of that shame because of your actions.

If so, there is Good News! God can take away that shame and replace it with peace and joy. Pray that God will help you to overcome the temptation. He has promised to help those who ask.


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*"Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, © Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission."