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Job 31:1

WEB

1I made a covenant with my eyes; how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

KJV

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

BSB

1I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?

FBV

1I vowed to myself never to look with desire at young women.


Extra References

James 1:14-15

14But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed. 15Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.


Matthew 5:28-29

28but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. 29If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.


1 John 2:16

16For all that is in the worldthe lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.


Psalms 119:37

37Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.


Proverbs 6:25

25Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.


2 Samuel 11:2-4

2At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at. 3David sent and inquired after the woman. One said, “Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, Uriah the Hittite’s wife?”

4David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house.


Proverbs 4:25

25Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.


Genesis 6:2

2God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.


Proverbs 23:31-33

31Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly. 32In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper. 33Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.