Job 31:1
“I made a covenant with my eyes; how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
World English Bible Catholic
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 6:2God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.
Psalms 119:37Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.
Proverbs 6:25Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
Matthew 5:28but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
1 John 2:16For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.
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 →