Job 31:1
I made a covenant with mine eyes; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid?
Darby Translation
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 6:2that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and took themselves wives of all that they chose.
Psalms 119:37Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; quicken me in thy way.
Proverbs 6:25Lust not after her beauty in thy heart, neither let her take thee with her eyelids;
Matthew 5:28But *I* say unto you, that every one who looks upon a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
1 John 2:16because all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride 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 →