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Job Chapter 31 verse 1 Holy Bible

ASV Job 31:1

I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon a virgin?
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BBE Job 31:1

I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin?
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DARBY Job 31:1

I made a covenant with mine eyes; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid?
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KJV Job 31:1

I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
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WBT Job 31:1

I Made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
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WEB Job 31:1

"I made a covenant with my eyes, How then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
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YLT Job 31:1

A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what -- do I attend to a virgin?
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 1. - I made a covenant with mine eyes; rather, for mine eyes. The covenant must have been with himself. Job means that be came to a fixed resolution, by which he thenceforth guided his conduct, not even to "look upon a woman to lust after her" (Matthew 5:28). We must suppose this resolution come to in his early youth, when the passions are strongest, and when so many men go astray. How then should I look upon a maid! Having made such a resolution, how could I possibly break it by "looking upon a maid"? Job assumes that he could not be so weak as to break a solemn resolution.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English ReadersXXXI.(1) I made a covenant with mine eyes.--Job makes one grand profession of innocence, rehearsing his manner of life from the first; and here he does not content himself with traversing the accusations of his friends, but professes his innocence also of sins less manifest to the observance of others, and affecting the secret conduct and the heart--namely, sensual transgression and idolatry. His object, therefore, is to show his friends that he has really been more upright than their standard demanded or than they supposed him to be, till his affliction made them suspect him; and this uprightness was the consequence of rigid and inflexible adherence to principle, for he made a covenant with his eyes, as the avenues of sinful desires. (Comp. Matthew 5:28.)