Job 31:1
Verse 1 of 40. The 31st of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.
1I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
2For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
3Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
4Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
5If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
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Job 31:1 in the World English Bible
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Matthew Henry on Job 31:1
What the resolutions were which, in this matter, he kept to (v. 1): I made a covenant with my eyes, that is, "I watched against the occasions of the sin; why then should I think upon a maid?" that is, "by that means, through the grace of God, I kept myself from the very first step towards it."
Read Matthew Henry on Job 31:1–8: Job's Vindication of Himself. (b. c. 1520.)
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