Job 31:1
I reached an agreement with my eyes, that I would not so much as think about a virgin.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 6:2the sons of God, seeing that the daughters of men were beautiful, took to themselves wives from all whom they chose.
Proverbs 6:25Let not your heart desire her beauty; do not be captivated by her winks.
Matthew 5:28But I say to you, that anyone who will have looked at a woman, so as to lust after her, has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
1 John 2:16For all that is in the world is the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the arrogance of a life which 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 →