Seeing I was obliged, and accordingly took care, to guard mine eyes, I was upon the same reason obliged to restrain my imagination. Job as Predictors of an Applicants Intention to Pursue the Job––. Job 31:1. And what is its value? See Peters, and the note on Job 31:13; Job 31:23. The term is used in reference to all those in all areas of the sex industry, including those who provide direct sexual services. Job 31:1, ESV: "“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?" Job 31:1 Translation & Meaning. I understand this may also seem philosophical, but when studying English, often we not only study the words, but we often study what the meaning is, and what a phrase or writing may mean or imply. commission of sin; he made use of all ways and means, and took Use this table to get a word-for-word translation of the original Hebrew Scripture. Figure of speech Erotesis. Not covetous, nor idolatrous, which ought to be punished by the magistrate, Job 31:24-28. He asserts his guarding against being allured to sin by his senses. Notice this high moral standard and the understanding that lust is wrong as well as the actual act. Tools. Irregular glancing, or inordinate gazing, is that which metamorphoseth a man into a beast, and makes him a prey to his own brutish affections. Hereby we plainly see that that command of Christ. I suppose that Job purges himself here from this species of idolatry. About five years ago I wrote in my prayer journal about Job 31 and how the text was a sort of inspiration to me: “I made a covenant with my eyes not to look with lust upon a young woman.” (Job 31:1, NLT). wherefore Job, to prevent this, entered into a solemn engagement Job 31:2. No man was ever too much guarded on this subject; no one ever yet made too solemn a covenant with his eyes, and with his whole soul to be chaste. 11 For that would have been wicked, a sin to be judged. To leave the whirlwind situation here (42:6) would lead in one of two unacceptable directions – either ‘God’ throws the ‘scrapheap’ Job out of his presence or the ‘scrapheap’ Job withdraws his case. Answer: In Job 31:1, Job says that he had made a covenant with his eyes—a promise not to look at something: “I made a covenant with my eyes / not to look lustfully at a young woman.” It is clear that Job was speaking about his personal purity. 12 It is a fire that burns to Destruction. Job 31:1, NASB : "'I have made a covenant with my eyes; How then could I gaze at a virgin?" This strongly shows Job‘s piety and purity of heart, and is a beautiful illustration of patriarchal religion. "[9] Job's ideas, as revealed in this chapter, are not very far from the glorious ideals proclaimed by the Christ himself. Job proceeds to prove that he deserved a better lot. These pillars were afterwards turned to idolatrous uses; and it is one of the commands to the children of Israel to break them in pieces on their entrance into the land of Canaan. 4) Job’s Ultimate Challenge--An Oath of Innocence which ‘Legally’ Calls God to Answer” 31:1-40 a) Job Has Not Lusted: 31:1-4 b) Job Has Not Lied or Deceived: 31:5-8 c) Job Has Not Committed Adultery: 31:9-12 d) Job Has Not Failed to Help His Slaves: 31:13-15 e) Job Has Not Failed to Help the Poor and Needy: 31:16-23 I made — So far have I been from any gross wickedness, that I have abstained from the least occasions and appearances of evil. of Troubled low-income neighborhoods, for instance, are more likely to experience the need for services. For unbridled lust, like the wild fig, will soon mount over the wall; and those base, vain, wanton, capering thoughts will break out, if not timely suppressed; if we handle them not roughly at the door (as Elisha said), their master’s feet will not be far behind them. thought of sin is sin; that fornication was reckoned a sin before . Matthew 5:28. aggravated one: or he made a covenant with his eyes, to prevent Circe {In Greek and Latin mythology the name of an enchantress who dwelt in the island of Aea, and transformed all who drank of her cup into swine; often used allusively.} Let therefore as many as would be perfect be thus minded and thus mannered; propounding to themselves the highest pitch and the best patterns; resolving to resemble them as much as may be. Many of the ancients thought that it was best not to be born; and next best, if one were born, to quit the earth as soon as possible. any impure thoughts, desires, and inclinations in him; for the Article Images Copyright © 2021 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. I made a covenant with mine eyes. If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door; Tools. 1,470 4 4 gold badges 15 15 silver badges 29 29 bronze badges. This shows the English words related to the source biblical texts along with brief definitions. adultery as he had; and that good men are not without temptation Job would prevent that mischief by laying laws upon his eyes, those windows of wickedness and loop holes of lust, the very door and bait of all evil concupiscence, Matthew 5:29, 1 John 2:16, that flesh pleaslng lust, that nest egg of the devil (as one wittily calleth it), that eldest child of old Adam’s strength, bearing name of the mother, which is called in general, lust, or concupiscence. Job 31:1. job 31:1. 2:14 ) ; hence Zaleucus ordered adulterers to be punished, by Job is compelled to proclaim his own praises, for his vindication, as St. Paul was, being at the same time convinced that he had only done his duty, Luke xvii. 4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? Job 31:10, KJV: "Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her." 2,587 8 8 gold badges 26 26 silver badges 33 33 bronze badges. Photius says, that he saw many of them in Mount Libanus. Some have said that it is perhaps even the greatest poem in all literature. indulge myself in filthy and lustful thoughts? Job proceeds to prove that he deserved a better lot. ", John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible, Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible, Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments, George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Unabridged, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. 11:2 ) ; so the poet F20 represents the eye as the way not to look lustfully at a young woman. 2.). "Without any system whatever, sins against God, and sins against one's neighbor follow each other in the list. Question: "What does it mean to make a covenant with your eyes?" A preliminary declaration that he had prescribed terms to the most treacherous of the senses, and planted a guard over his entire being, and that, too, impelled by the highest considerations of regard for God, Job 31:1-4. And why should I set myself to contemplate, or think upon, Bethulah? and may my crops be uprooted. his heart should be drawn thereby to lust after her; for the eyes This chapter deserves our attention the more, because, though Job takes no pride in what he here saith, in the justification of himself, yet in those secret sins, which are known only to the LORD, on numberless occasions of evil, the Patriarch pleads not guilty; and which therefore serves to confirm the divine testimony which the LORD gave concerning his servant, in the opening of the book itself, that there was none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feared GOD, and eschewed evil. Our standards in such things are not the same as those which in a different culture guided Job. At first, these idols were only rude stones or pillars; afterwards they were made in human and brutal forms. Should I think upon, i.e. of corrupting and defiling her, since he had made a covenant with are inlets to many sins, and particularly to uncleanness, of Not only was he innocent of adultery; he was not even guilty of the lustful look (Matthew 5:28). 31 “I made a covenant with my eyes. had bound himself by a covenant, made a resolution in the First strophe, A preliminary declaration that he had prescribed terms to the most treacherous of the senses, and planted a guard over his entire being, and that, too, impelled by the highest considerations of regard for God, — The eyes, says a Talmudic proverb, are “the procuresses of evil.” So intimately is this most delicate and precious of the senses related to the soul, that Pliny said of the mind. Such was his sense of the importance of this, and of the danger to which man was exposed, that he had solemnly resolved not to think upon a young female. And it was so, that when the days of their feasting were ended, Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all; for Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." Job 31:1. (Haydock) --- Why should I expose myself, (Calmet) by indiscreet looks, (Haydock) since the passage from the eye to the heart is so easy, Ecclesiastes ii. "Here we have the high-water mark of the Old Testament ethic. And which are indeed blessings from the Lord, and such as good men, and … There is a great beauty in Job's expression in this verse, of having made a covenant with his eyes, to preserve, under grace, the chastity of the mind and body. There is much emphasis in the expression used here by Job. 9 “If my heart has been enticed toward a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door, 10 then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down on her. Do we take being moral this seriously? Any charge of that kind, or any suspicion of it, he would repel with indignation. There may be many causes, in the difficulty of attainment, or the shame and punishment which might attend the gratification of unlawful passions, which restrain the actual commission of the sin; but nothing but the grace of GOD can preserve the chastity of the mind from so much as wishing it, or thinking upon it. In this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings, unless the context requires otherwise:— ''Administrator'', the personnel administrator of the human resources division within the executive office for administration and finance. "[4] This is especially important, because it removes any reason for allowing the various rearrangements of the text which certain scholars have presumed to make. His imprecation against himself, if he spoke not the truth, Job 31:38-40. “it certainly dwells in the eyes.” Here the eye is singled out as a representative sense, as if he, who had the mastery of this were lord of all. Is it not destruction to the wicked, and a rejection of the workers of iniquity? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? 2 For what portion of God is there from above? Apolog. Look upon the woeful chain of David’s lust, and remember how many have died of the wound in the eye. 31 The words of King Lemuel. Thus did Job continually. Not revengeful, Job 31:29,30. 1 What are you doing, f son of my womb? By the language here, Job means that he had resolved, in the most solemn manner, that he would not allow his eyes or thoughts to endanger him by improperly contemplating a woman. Job 31:10, NIV: "then may my wife grind another man's grain, and may other men sleep with her." To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. So the Greek ὅρκια τέμνειν, πέμνἔιν σπονδάς horkia temnein temnein spondas and the Latin icere foedus - to strike a league, in allusion to the striking down, or slaying of an animal on the occasion. 9 “If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or if I have lurked at my neighbor’s door, 10 then may my wife grind another man’s grain, and may other men sleep with her. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil." 1.With mine eyes — The eyes, says a Talmudic proverb, are “the procuresses of evil.” So intimately is this most delicate and precious of the senses related to the soul, that Pliny said of the mind. Job 31:11. @Nancy This is nothing to do with classes of elements and all to do with -having special meaning in a formula. l. 13. c. 24. ; wherefore Job, to prevent this, entered into a solemn engagement with himself, laid himself under a strong obligation, as if he had bound himself by a covenant, made a resolution in the strength of divine grace, not to employ his eyes in looking on objects that might ensnare his heart, and lead him to the commission of sin; he made use of all ways and means, and took every precaution to guard against it; and particularly this, to shut or turn his eyes from beholding what might be alluring and enticing to him: it is saidF24Tertullian. Job 31:1, KJV: "I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?" Job 31:1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? Such was his sense of the importance of this, and of the danger to which man was exposed, that he had solemnly resolved not to think upon a young female. Quell them therefore and crush them in the egg; it is not safe being at Satan’s meal, though our spoon be never so long; remember, that of looking comes thinking; and of thinking, worse. Answer: In Job 31:1, Job says that he had made a covenant with his eyes—a promise not to look at something: “I made a covenant with my eyes / not to look lustfully at a young woman.” It is clear that Job was speaking about his personal purity. Genesis 39:9. Why then should I think — How then should I look, or gaze, look wistfully upon, . Job 31:1, KJV: "I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?" Reader, though I have made this long note upon this verse, yet it is so very important, that I venture to make it a little longer, and to observe, that since from the corruption of our poor fallen nature, evil thoughts, and the whole train of the imaginations of the heart arise, how infinitely precious ought it to be to us, to eye the grace of JESUS as our preservative against this, and every evil; and, conscious of the uncleanness within, to keep the heart with all diligence, and to beg of GOD to keep it for us, since out of it are the issues of life. therefore, besides the sin of lusting after her, or of corrupting Job 31:1. "I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin? Like many other Biblical books, Job does not always follow the classical rules for writing. His repentance, Job 31:33. A sex worker is a person who is employed in the sex industry. View Chapter 10. as a high-toned moralist, who looked upon chastity of the heart as no less important than chastity of the life. I made a covenant with mine eyes - The first virtue of his private life to which Job refers is chastity. Question: "What does it mean to make a covenant with your eyes?" As in Job 29:1-25 he showed his uprightness as an emir, or magistrate, in public life, so in this chapter be vindicates his character in private life. Genesis Job Chapter 31. This idea of cutting up a victim on occasion of making a covenant, is retained in most languages. My conscience and my eyes are the contracting parties; God is the Judge; and I am therefore bound not to look upon any thing with a delighted or covetous eye, by which my conscience may be defiled, or my God dishonored. "I have made a covenant with my eyes; How then could I gaze at a virgin? He enters, somewhat more largely, into the particular justification of himself from that sin which he seemed so much hurt at having been charged with, hypocrisy, and closes the subject with this defense. enticing to him: it is said F24 of Democritus, that he put Job has “made a covenant”. Chap. Or, why then should I consider, or contemplate, or look curiously, or thoughtfully, or diligently? So far have I been from wallowing in the mire of uncleanness, or any gross wickedness, wherewith you charge me, that I have abstained even from the least occasions and appearances of evil, having made a solemn resolution within myself, and a solemn covenant and promise to God, that I would not wantonly or lustfully fix mine eyes or gaze upon a maid, lest mine eyes should affect my heart, and stir me up to further filthiness. John Gill's Exposition of the Bible. Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her. 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