“ I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? ”
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,...
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?
Job 31. The Oath of Clearing. Job's final protestation of his innocence, and appeal to God to judge him. This chapter, says Duhm, is the high-water mark of the OT ethic, higher than the Decalogue o...
I. Note the "I" of self-justification; and see note on Job 29:2 . why... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.
I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? I made a covenant with mine eyes - ברית כרתי לעיני berith carati leeynai: "I have cut" or divided "the covenant sacrifice with m...
Job makes a solemn protestation of his integrity, and concludes with a prayer that his defence might be heard and recorded. Before Christ 1645. Job 31:1 . Why then should I think upon a...
I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? Job 31:1-40 . Job proceeds to prove that he deserved a better lot. As in Job 29:1-25 he showed his uprightness as an e...
I made a covenant with mine eyes ] Job resolved to keep a guard over them that they should not transgress. Why then should I think ?] RV 'How then should I look?' 2a. RM 'What portion should I...
XXXI. (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...
XXIV. AS A PRINCE BEFORE THE KING Job 29:1-25 ; Job 30:1-31 ; Job 31:1-40 Job SPEAKS FROM the pain and desolation to which he has become inured as a pitiable second state of existence, Job...
the Clean Life Job 31:1-40 Job had specially guarded against impurity, for its heritage is one of calamity and disaster. He is sure that even if he were weighed by God Himself there would be no...
This whole chapter is taken up with Job's solemn oath of innocence. It is ills official answer to the line of argument adopted by his three friends. In the process of his declaration he called on God...
CONTENTS The subject of Job's defense is still prosecuted. He enters, somewhat more largely, into the particular justification of himself from that sin which he seemed so much hurt at having been ch...
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...
I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? Ver. 1. I made a covenant with mine eyes ] This chapter, since it is one of the largest in all the book, so it is elegant, va...
I made a covenant with mine eyes , &c. So far have I been from any gross wickedness, that I have abstained from the least occasions and appearances of evil. It was possible Job's friends might m...
Though Job's misery was complete, he returns in this chapter to the defence of his whole life, which was comparatively more virtuous than that of any other man. God had said this to Satan long before...
Job's Vindication of Himself. B. C. 1520. 1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then s...
JOB CHAPTER 31 He protesteth his continency and chastity; God's providence, presence, and judgments; his motives, Job 31:1-4 . His just dealings, Job 31:5-8 . Free from adultery, which ought...
JOB’S SELF-VINDICATION.—HIS SOLILOQUY CONTINUED Concludes his speeches by a solemn, particular, and extended declaration of the purity and uprightness of his life. Especial reference to his pri...
Job 31:1 . A maid. The LXX, followed by the Chaldaic, read virgin; but our English version has the most ancient support. Job was pure and spotless in conversation with women. He abhorred seduction...
I made a covenant with mine eyes. Guard the senses Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan’s landing places, especially the eye and the ear. ( W. Gurnall. ) Methods of mo...
EXPOSITION The conclusion of Job's long speech (ch. 26-31.) is now reached. He winds it up by a solemn vindication of himself from all the charges of wicked conduct which have been alleged or in...
I made a covenant with mine eyes, prescribing to his organs of vision their conduct; why, then, should I think upon a maid, casting lustful, adulterous looks upon a person of the opposite sex?
1 John 2:16 ; 2 Samuel 11:2-4 ; Genesis 6:2 ; James 1:14 ; James 1:15 ; Matthew 5:28 ; Matthew 5:29 ; Proverbs 23:31-33 ; Proverbs 4:25 ; Proverbs 6:25 ; Psalms 119:37
I made — So far have I been from any gross wickedness, that I have abstained from the least occasions and appearances of evil.