Job 31:1

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Job Vindicates Himself“I made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I entertain thoughts against a virgin?

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 5:28-29 : 28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into hell.
  • Jas 1:14-15 : 14 But each one is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desires. 15 Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.
  • 1 John 2:16 : 16 because all that is in the world(the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions) is not from the Father, but is from the world.
  • Ps 119:37 : 37 Turn my eyes away from what is worthless! Revive me with your word!
  • Prov 4:25 : 25 Let your eyes look directly in front of you and let your gaze look straight before you.
  • Prov 6:25 : 25 Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes;
  • 2 Sam 11:2-4 : 2 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of his palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. Now this woman was very attractive. 3 So David sent someone to inquire about the woman. The messenger said,“Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” 4 David sent some messengers to get her. She came to him and he went to bed with her.(Now at that time she was in the process of purifying herself from her menstrual uncleanness.) Then she returned to her home.
  • Gen 6:2 : 2 the sons of God saw that the daughters of humankind were beautiful. Thus they took wives for themselves from any they chose.

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    25Let your eyes look directly in front of you and let your gaze look straight before you.

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    37Turn my eyes away from what is worthless! Revive me with your word!

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    6For at the window of my house through my window lattice I looked out

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    26if I looked at the sun when it was shining, and the moon advancing as a precious thing,

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  • Lam 3:51
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    51What my eyes see grieves me– all the suffering of the daughters in my city.

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    9If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door,

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    16If I have refused to give the poor what they desired, or caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

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    24I was blameless before him; I kept myself from sinning.

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    27whom I will see for myself, and whom my own eyes will behold, and not another. My heart grows faint within me.

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    2“Look up at the hilltops and consider this. Where have you not been ravished? You waited for those gods like a thief lying in wait in the wilderness. You defiled the land by your wicked prostitution to other gods.

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    23I was innocent before him, and kept myself from sinning.

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    5I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye has seen you.

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