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Job 31:1

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

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

I made a covenant with mine eyes,.... Not to look upon a woman, and wantonly gaze at her beauty, lest his heart should be drawn thereby to lust after her; for the eyes are inlets to many sins, and…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

I made a covenant with mine eyes - The first virtue of his private life to which Job refers is chastity. Such was his sense of the importance of this, and of the danger to which man was exposed, that…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 31:1-8

The lusts of the flesh, and the love of the world, are the two fatal rocks on which multitudes split; against these Job protests he was always careful to stand upon his guard.

I. Against the lusts of…