Job 31:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ “I have made a covenant with my eyes; how, then, could I look upon a virgin?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ I DICTATED a covenant (an agreement) to my eyes; how then could I look [lustfully] upon a girl?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon a virgin?

Common English Bible

¹ I’ve made a covenant with my eyes; how could I look at a virgin?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ I reached an agreement with my eyes, that I would not so much as think about a virgin.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.

Job 31:1 Cross References

Genesis 6:2

the sons of God saw that they were fair, and they took wives for themselves of all that they chose.

Job 31:9

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

Psalm 119:37

Turn my eyes from looking at vanities; be gracious to me according to your word.

Proverbs 4:25

Let your eyes look directly forward and your gaze be straight before you.

Proverbs 6:25

Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes,

1 John 2:16

for all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, the pride in riches—comes not from the Father but from the world.