If I have wittingly, and willingly, and customarily (as you accuse me) swerved from the way of truth and justice which God hath prescribed to me; for otherwise no man here is so just, but he sometimes takes a wrong step, Ecclesiastes 7:20. If I have let my heart loose to covet and seek after forbidden things, which mine eyes have seen; which may design either,
1. The lust of uncleanness; but of that he had spoken Job 31:1, and reneweth the discourse Job 31:9. Or rather,
2. The lust of covetousness, which is called the lust of the eyes, 1 John 2:16, partly because it is oft caused by sight, as Joshua 7:21, and partly because ofttimes all the satisfaction it gives is to please the sight, Ecclesiastes 5:11. And this sin is most legible in the following punishment, Job 31:8, where his loss answers to this evil gain. The phrase notes the common method and progress of sin, which is to enter by the eye to the heart, Genesis 3:6 Numbers 15:39 Ecclesiastes 2:10, Ecclesiastes 11:9. Any blot, or blemish, to wit, any unjust gain. If I have in my hands or possession any goods gotten from others by fraud or violence, which would be a great scandal and a blot to my reputation.