| Job 31:1 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | "I have made a covenant with my eyes; How then could I gaze at a virgin? (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | "I have made an agreement with my eyes. Then how can I look with lust at a virgin?(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? |
| ASV: | I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon a virgin? |
| BBE: | I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin? |
| DBY: | I made a covenant with mine eyes; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid? |
| ERV: | I MADE a covenant with mine eyes; how then should I look upon a maid? |
| JPS: | I made a covenant with mine eyes; how then should I look upon a maid? |
| WBS: | I Made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? |
| WEB: | "I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman? |
| YLT: | A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what -- do I attend to a virgin? |
| Job 31:1 Cross References |
| XREF: | Matthew 5:28 but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 31:1 I made a covenant with mine {a} eyes; why then should I think upon {b} a maid?
(a) I kept my eyes from all wanton looks.
(b) Would not God then have punished me? |
| WES: | 31:1 I made - So far have I been from any gross wickedness, that I have abstained from the least occasions and appearances of evil. |
| MHC: | 31:1-8 Job did not speak the things here recorded by way of boasting, but in answer to the charge of hypocrisy. He understood the spiritual nature of God's commandments, as reaching to the thoughts and intents of the heart. It is best to let our actions speak for us; but in some cases we owe it to ourselves and to the cause of God, solemnly to protest our innocence of the crimes of which we are falsely accused. The lusts of the flesh, and the love of the world, are two fatal rocks on which multitudes split; against these Job protests he was always careful to stand upon his guard. And God takes more exact notice of us than we do of ourselves; let us therefore walk circumspectly. He carefully avoided all sinful means of getting wealth. He dreaded all forbidden profit as much as all forbidden pleasure. What we have in the world may be used with comfort, or lost with comfort, if honestly gotten. Without strict honestly and faithfulness in all our dealings, we can have no good evidence of true godliness. Yet how many professors are unable to abide this touchstone! |
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