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covenant with my eyes; how then could I look upon a virgin?<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/job/31.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />I promised myself never to stare with desire at a young woman. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/job/31.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />I made a covenant with my eyes not to gaze upon a virgin. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/job/31.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.</p><p class="hdg">a covenant</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../genesis/6-2.htm">Genesis 6:2</a> The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_samuel/11-2.htm">2 Samuel 11:2-4</a> In the mean time it happened that David arose from his bed after noon, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: And he saw from the roof of his house a woman washing herself, over against him: and the woman was very beautiful. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/119-37.htm">Psalm 119:37</a> Turn away my eyes that they may not behold vanity: quicken me in thy way.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/4-25.htm">Proverbs 4:25</a> Make straight the path for thy feet, and all thy ways shall be established.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/23-31.htm">Proverbs 23:31-33</a> Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly, . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/5-28.htm">Matthew 5:28,29</a> But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_john/2-16.htm">1 John 2:16</a> For all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh and the concupiscence of the eyes and the pride of life, which is not of the Father but is of the world.</p><p class="hdg">think</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/6-25.htm">Proverbs 6:25</a> For the price of a harlot is scarce one loaf: but the woman catcheth the precious soul of a man.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../james/1-14.htm">James 1:14,15</a> But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured. . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/job/31.htm">Job's Final Appeal</a></span><br> <span class="reftext">1</span><span class="highl">I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.</span><span class="reftext">2</span>For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high?…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/5-28.htm">Matthew 5:28</a></span><br />But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../job/31-9.htm">Job 31:9</a></span><br />If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend's door:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/job/5-23.htm">Agreement</a> <a href="/job/13-6.htm">Attend</a> <a href="/job/5-23.htm">Covenant</a> <a href="/job/29-15.htm">Eyes</a> <a href="/job/14-3.htm">Fix</a> <a href="/job/30-20.htm">Gaze</a> <a href="/esther/2-13.htm">Girl</a> <a href="/matthew/5-28.htm">Lustfully</a> <a 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