Job 31:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Job 31:1 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

James 1:14-15
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. …
Matthew 5:28-29
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. …
1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Psalms 119:37
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
Proverbs 6:25
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

Topics

Adultery Afflictions and Adversities Chastity Commandments Conscience Conscientiousness Continence Copulation

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 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 the flesh. He not only kept himself clear from adultery, from defiling his neighbour’s wives (Job 31:9), but from all lewdness with any women whatsoever. He kept no concubine, no mistress, but was inv…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Job 31:1-40. 1. Job proceeds to prove that he deserved a better lot. As in the twenty-ninth chapter, he showed his uprightness as an emir, or magistrate in public life, so in this chapter he vindicates his character in private life. 1-4. He asserts his guarding against being allured to sin by his senses. think--rather, “cast a (lustful) look.” He not merely did not so, but put it out of the questi…