Job 31:1
I made a covenant with my eyes. How then should I look upon a virgin?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
In Context
2For what is the portion from God above, and the heritage from the Almighty on high?
Cross References
Genesis 6:2that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair. And they took to them wives of all that they chose.
Psalms 119:37Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity, and enliven me in thy ways.
Proverbs 6:25Do not lust after her beauty in thy heart, nor let her take thee with her eyelids.
Matthew 5:28But I say to you, that every man who looks on a woman to crave her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
1 John 2:16Because everything in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the arrogance of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Matthew Henry on Job 31:1
Job had often protested his integrity in general; here he does it in particular instances, not in a way of commendation (for he does not here proclaim his good deeds), but in his own just and necessary vindication, to clear himself from those crimes with which his friends had falsely charged him, which is a debt every man owes to his own reputation. Job's friends had been particular in their articles of impeachment against him, and therefore he is so in his protestation, which seems to refer especially to what… Read the whole commentary →