Job 31:1
A covenant had I made with my eyes: how then should I fix my look on a virgin?
Leeser Tanakh
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 they took themselves wives of all whom they chose.
Psalms 119:37Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity: on thy way do thou give me life.
Proverbs 6:25Covet not her beauty in thy heart, and let her not conquer thee with her eyelids.
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 →