“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?
The lusts of the flesh, and the love of the world, are the two fatal rocks on which multitudes split; against these Job protests he was always careful to stand upon his guard. I. Against the lusts of the flesh. He not only kept himself clear from adultery, from defiling his neighbour's wives (Job 31:9), but from all lewdness with any women whatsoever.
Commenting on Job 31:1-8
I made a covenant with mine eyes,.... Not to look upon a woman, and wantonly gaze at her beauty, lest his heart should be drawn thereby to lust after her; for the eyes are inlets to many sins, and particularly to uncleanness, of which there have been instances, both in bad men and good men, Gen 34:2; so the poet (t) represents the eye as...
I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? (a) I kept my eyes from all wanton looks. (b) Would not God then have punished me?