Job 31:1
“I made a covenant for my eyes, || And how do I attend to a virgin?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
In Context
2And what [is] the portion of God from above? And the inheritance of the Mighty from the heights?
Cross References
Genesis 6:2and the sons of God see that they, the daughters of men, [are] beautiful, and they take women for themselves of all whom they have chosen.
Psalms 119:37Remove my eyes from seeing vanity, || Quicken me in Your way.
Proverbs 6:25Do not desire her beauty in your heart, || And do not let her take you with her eyelids.
Matthew 5:28but I say to you that everyone who is looking on a woman to desire her, already committed adultery with her in his heart.
1 John 2:16because all that [is] in the world—the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of [one’s] life—is not of the Father, but 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 →