Job 31:1

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Job 31:1-40

CHAPTER 31 1. My chastity and righteousness (Job 31:1-12 ) 2. My philanthropy (Job 31:13-23 ) 3. My integrity and hospitality (Job 31:24-34 ) 4. Let God and man disprove me (Job 31:35-40 ) Job 31:1-12 . His final word is the final word in his self-righteous vindication. He gives Eliphaz the lie. He gives a review of his life to prove that he is clean in the sight of God and of man. Even if after this outburst his friends would have an inclination to answer him they could not have done... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Job 31:1

31:1 I made a covenant with mine {a} eyes; why then should I think upon {b} a maid?(a) I kept my eyes from all wanton looks.(b) Would not God then have punished me? read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Job 31:1-40

Though Job's misery was complete, he returns in this chapter to the defence of his whole life, which was comparatively more virtuous than that of any other man. God had said this to Satan long before (Job 1:8), so that there is no reason to doubt what Job says of himself, though he did not realise that the very fact of his declaring his own goodness was really sinful pride. JOB'S CLAIM OF MORAL UPRIGHTNESS (vv.1-12) He says he had made a covenant with his eyes (v.1). That is, he had... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Job 31:1-40

THIRD SERIES OF THE DEBATE 1. With Eliphaz (chaps. 22-24) a. Speech of Eliphaz (chap. 22) b. Reply of Job (chaps. 23-24) 2. With Bildad (chaps. 25-26) a. Speech of Bildad (chap. 25) b. Reply of Job (chap. 26) 3. With Zophar (chaps. 27-31) a. Continuation of the reply of Job (chaps. 27-31) The last speech Eliphaz makes, chapter 22, is a grand effort to refute Job based upon the latter’s appeal to facts. There is more severity in it than he has shown before. He charges Job with cruelty,... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Job 31:1-40

Job 31:0 1. I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? [Some think that Job's wife was now dead.] 2. For what portion of God is there [would be] from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? 3. Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? 4. Doth not he [emphatic, meaning God] see my ways, and count all my steps? 5. If I have walked with vanity [inward falsehood], or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; 6. Let... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Job 31:1

CONTENTS The subject of Job's defense is still prosecuted. 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. Job 31:1 (1) ¶ I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? 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... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Job 31:1

I made. 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. 10. This is the third part of his discourse. Having given a picture of his prosperous and of his miserable condition, he observes that the latter was not inflicted in consequence of any misconduct, since he had always been attentive to avoid (Calmet) the most remote danger of offending God, or his neighbour. (Haydock) --- That... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Job 31:1-8

1-8 Job did not speak the things here recorded by way of boasting, but in answer to the charge of hypocrisy. He understood the spiritual nature of God's commandments, as reaching to the thoughts and intents of the heart. It is best to let our actions speak for us; but in some cases we owe it to ourselves and to the cause of God, solemnly to protest our innocence of the crimes of which we are falsely accused. The lusts of the flesh, and the love of the world, are two fatal rocks on which... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Job 31:1-34

Job Recounts his Blameless Conduct v. 1. I made a covenant with mine eyes, prescribing to his organs of vision their conduct; why, then, should I think upon a maid, casting lustful, adulterous looks upon a person of the opposite sex? v. 2. For what portion of God is there from above? What dispensation would come from Him, namely, in the form of punishment for such a sinful thought? And what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? What would His portion have been in punishing him for such... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Job 31:1-40

SECOND CHIEF DIVISION OF THE POEMDISENTANGLEMENT OF THE MYSTERY THROUGH THE DISCOURSES OF JOB, ELIHU AND JEHOVAHJob 29:1 to Job 42:6First Stage of the DisentanglementJob 29-31Job’s Soliloquy, setting forth the truth that his suffering was not due to his moral conduct, that it must have therefore a deeper cause. [The negative side of the solution of the problem.]1. Yearning retrospect at the fair prosperity of his former lifeJob 29:0a. Describing the outward appearance of this former... read more

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