Job 31:1
I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
KJV
Pepigi fœdus cum oculis meis, ut ne cogitarem quidem de virgine.
Vulgate
διαθήκην ἐθέμην τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς μου. καὶ οὐ συνήσω ἐπὶ παρθένον.
LXX
I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon a virgin?
ASV
בְּ֭רִית כָּרַ֣תִּי לְ/עֵינָ֑/י וּ/מָ֥ה אֶ֝תְבּוֹנֵ֗ן עַל בְּתוּלָֽה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
בְּתוּלַ֖ת
btvlt
noun · 50×
הִכְרַתִּ֥י
hkrty
verb · 283×
י
y
noun · 280×
יָבִ֥ין
ybyn
verb · 168×
ךָ
k
noun · 894×
מַה
mh
particle · 745×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Homilies on Matthew · 2 passages
2. For beginning from those passions, which most belong to our whole race, anger, I mean, and desire (for it is these chiefly that bear absolute sway within us, and are more natural than the rest); He with great authority, even such as became a legislator, both corrected them, and reduced them to order with all strictness. For He said not that the adulterer merely is punished; …
2. But do thou consider, I pray you, who they are that hear these injunctions, so hard and laborious: the timid and ignorant; the unlettered and uninstructed; such as are in every respect obscure, who have never been trained up in the Gentile laws, who do not readily present themselves in the public places; the fishermen, the publicans, men full of innumerable deficiencies. For…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210212.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Cross-references
- 1John 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.
- 1John 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.
- 2Cor 1:12 — For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and mor
- 2Sam 11:2 — And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautif
- 2Sam 11:2 — And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautif
- Exod 20:17 — Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
- Gen 3:6 — And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto
- Gen 6:2 — That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
- Gen 34:2 — And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
- Gen 39:7 — And it came to pass after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.
- Jas 1:14 — But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
- Job 1:1 — There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
- Job 4:6 — Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
- Mark 9:47 — And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire:
- Matt 5:28 — But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
- Matt 5:28 — But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
- Prov 4:25 — Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
- Prov 4:25 — Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
- Prov 6:25 — Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
- Prov 23:31 — Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
- Ps 101:3 — I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
- Ps 119:37 — Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
- Ps 119:37 — Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.