I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
a covenant
Genesis 6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; …
2 Samuel 11:2-4 And it came to pass in an evening, that David arose from off his …
Psalm 119:37 Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken you me in your way.
Proverbs 4:25 Let your eyes look right on, and let your eyelids look straight before you.
Proverbs 23:31-33 Look not you on the wine when it is red, when it gives his color …
Matthew 5:28,29 But I say to you, That whoever looks on a woman to lust after her …
1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust …
think
Proverbs 6:25 Lust not after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you …
James 1:14,15 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed…
For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
destruction
Job 21:30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall …
Psalm 55:23 But you, O God, shall bring them down into the pit of destruction: …
Psalm 73:18 Surely you did set them in slippery places: you cast them down into destruction.
Proverbs 1:27 When your fear comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as …
Proverbs 10:29 The way of the LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall …
Proverbs 21:15 It is joy to the just to do judgment: but destruction shall be to …
Matthew 7:13 Enter you in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad …
Romans 9:22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known…
1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction …
2 Thessalonians 1:9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence …
2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there …
a strange
Isaiah 28:21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth …
Jude 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, …
Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
Let me be weighed in an even balance. Heb. Let him weigh me in balances of justice
1 Samuel 2:3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogance come out of …
Psalm 7:8,9 The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my …
Psalm 17:2,3 Let my sentence come forth from your presence; let your eyes behold …
Psalm 26:1 Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in my integrity: I have trusted …
Proverbs 16:11 A just weight and balance are the LORD's: all the weights of the …
Isaiah 26:7 The way of the just is uprightness: you, most upright, do weigh the …
Daniel 5:27 TEKEL; You are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.
Micah 6:11 Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag …
know
Joshua 22:22 The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knows, and Israel …
Psalm 1:6 For the LORD knows the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly …
Psalm 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
Matthew 7:23 And then will I profess to them, I never knew you: depart from me, …
2 Timothy 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal, …
If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
If my
Psalm 44:20,21 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands …
mine heart
Numbers 15:39 And it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look on it, and …
Ecclesiastes 11:9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you …
Ezekiel 6:9 And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations where …
Ezekiel 14:3,7 Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and …
Matthew 5:29 And if your right eye offend you, pluck it out, and cast it from you…
cleaved
Psalm 101:3 I will set no wicked thing before my eyes: I hate the work of them …
Isaiah 33:15 He that walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he that despises …
Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
let me
Job 5:5 Whose harvest the hungry eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns, …
Job 24:6 They reap every one his corn in the field: and they gather the vintage …
Leviticus 26:16 I also will do this to you; I will even appoint over you terror, …
Deuteronomy 28:30-33,38,51 You shall betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you …
Judges 6:3-6 And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, …
Micah 6:15 You shall sow, but you shall not reap; you shall tread the olives, …
let my
Job 5:4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, …
Job 15:30 He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, …
Job 18:19 He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining …
Psalm 109:13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let …
If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;
If mine
Judges 16:5 And the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, …
1 Kings 11:4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned …
Nehemiah 13:26 Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many …
Proverbs 2:16-19 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger which …
Proverbs 5:3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth …
Proverbs 6:25 Lust not after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you …
Proverbs 7:21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering …
Proverbs 22:14 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of …
Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares …
if I
Job 24:15,16 The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No …
Jeremiah 5:8 They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his …
Hosea 7:4 They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceases …
Then let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.
For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.
For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase.
If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;
the cause
Exodus 21:20,21,26,27 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die …
Leviticus 25:43,46 You shall not rule over him with rigor; but shall fear your God…
Deuteronomy 15:12-15 And if your brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold to …
Jeremiah 34:14-17 At the end of seven years let you go every man his brother an Hebrew, …
Ephesians 6:9 And, you masters, do the same things to them, forbearing threatening: …
Colossians 4:1 Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal; knowing …
when (In ancient times slaves had no action at law against their owners; but Job admitted them to all civil rights, and permitted them to complain even against himself.)
What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
What then
Job 9:32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should …
Job 10:2 I will say to God, Do not condemn me; show me why you contend with me.
Psalm 7:6 Arise, O LORD, in your anger, lift up yourself because of the rage …
Psalm 9:12,19 When he makes inquisition for blood, he remembers them: he forgets …
Psalm 10:12-15 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up your hand: forget not the humble…
Psalm 44:21 Shall not God search this out? for he knows the secrets of the heart.
Psalm 76:9 When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.
Psalm 143:2 And enter not into judgment with your servant: for in your sight …
Isaiah 10:3 And what will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation …
Zechariah 2:13 Be silent, O all flesh, before the LORD: for he is raised up out …
when he
Hosea 9:7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; …
Micah 7:4 The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than …
Mark 7:2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that …
James 2:13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has showed no mercy; …
what shall
Romans 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law said, it said to them …
Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
withheld
Job 22:7-9 You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld …
Deuteronomy 15:7-10 If there be among you a poor man of one of your brothers within any …
Psalm 112:9 He has dispersed, he has given to the poor; his righteousness endures …
Luke 16:21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's …
Acts 11:29 Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined …
Galatians 2:10 Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which …
the eyes
Deuteronomy 28:32 Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, and …
Psalm 69:3 I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: my eyes fail while I …
Psalm 119:82,123 My eyes fail for your word, saying, When will you comfort me…
Isaiah 38:14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: …
Lamentations 4:17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching …
Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
have
Deuteronomy 15:11,14 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command …
Nehemiah 8:10 Then he said to them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, …
Luke 11:41 But rather give alms of such things as you have; and, behold, all …
John 13:29 For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had …
Acts 4:32 And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul…
the fatherless
Job 29:13-16 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came on me: and I caused …
Ezekiel 18:7,16 And has not oppressed any, but has restored to the debtor his pledge, …
Romans 12:13 Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To …
1 John 3:17 But whoever has this world's good, and sees his brother have need, …
(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
Job 22:6 For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped …
2 Chronicles 28:15 And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the captives, …
Isaiah 58:7 Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the …
Matthew 25:36,43 Naked, and you clothed me: I was sick, and you visited me: I was …
Luke 3:11 He answers and said to them, He that has two coats, let him impart …
Acts 9:39 Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought …
James 2:16 And one of you say to them, Depart in peace, be you warmed and filled…
1 John 3:18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but …
If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
lifted
Job 6:27 Yes, you overwhelm the fatherless, and you dig a pit for your friend.
Job 22:9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have …
Job 24:9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
Job 29:12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and …
Proverbs 23:10,11 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless…
Jeremiah 5:28 They are waxen fat, they shine: yes, they overpass the deeds of the …
Ezekiel 22:7 In you have they set light by father and mother: in the middle of …
when
Micah 2:1,2 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil on their beds! when …
Micah 7:3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, …
Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
let
Job 31:10,40 Then let my wife grind to another, and let others bow down on her…
Joshua 22:22,23 The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knows, and Israel …
Psalm 7:4,5 If I have rewarded evil to him that was at peace with me; (yes, I …
Psalm 137:6 If I do not remember you, let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth; …
bone. or, chanel bone
For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
Genesis 31:1 And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob has taken away …
Deuteronomy 8:12-14 Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, …
Psalm 49:6,7,17 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude …
Psalm 52:7 See, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted …
Psalm 62:10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches …
Proverbs 10:15 The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the …
Proverbs 11:28 He that trusts in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall …
Proverbs 30:9 Lest I be full, and deny you, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I …
Mark 10:24 And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answers …
Luke 12:15 And he said to them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness…
Colossians 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth; fornication, …
1 Timothy 6:10,17 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted …
If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
rejoiced
Esther 5:11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude …
Proverbs 23:5 Will you set your eyes on that which is not? for riches certainly …
Jeremiah 9:23 Thus said the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither …
Ezekiel 28:5 By your great wisdom and by your traffic have you increased your …
Luke 12:19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have much goods laid up for …
Luke 16:19,25 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine …
because
Deuteronomy 8:17,18 And you say in your heart, My power and the might of my hand has …
Isaiah 10:13,14 For he said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my …
Daniel 4:30 The king spoke, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have …
Hosea 12:8 And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance…
Habakkuk 1:16 Therefore they sacrifice to their net, and burn incense to their …
gotten much. Heb. found much
If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;
beheld
Genesis 1:16-18 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, …
Deuteronomy 4:19 And lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, …
Deuteronomy 11:16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and you …
Deuteronomy 17:3 And has gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the …
2 Kings 23:5,11 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had …
Jeremiah 8:2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all …
Ezekiel 8:16 And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house, and, …
sun. Heb. light. the moon
Psalm 8:3,4 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon …
Jeremiah 44:17 But we will certainly do whatever thing goes forth out of our own …
in brightness. Heb. bright
And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:
my heart
Deuteronomy 11:16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and you …
Deuteronomy 13:6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, …
Isaiah 44:20 He feeds on ashes: a deceived heart has turned him aside, that he …
Romans 1:21,28 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, …
my mouth hath kissed my hand. Heb. my hand hath kissed my mouth
1 Kings 19:18 Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which …
Psalm 2:12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish from the way, when …
Hosea 13:2 And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images …
This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.
an
Job 31:11 For this is an heinous crime; yes, it is an iniquity to be punished …
Job 9:15 Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would …
Job 23:7 There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered …
Genesis 18:25 That be far from you to do after this manner, to slay the righteous …
Deuteronomy 17:2-7,9 If there be found among you, within any of your gates which the LORD …
Judges 11:27 Why I have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me…
Psalm 50:6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge …
Hebrews 12:23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written …
for
Joshua 24:23,27 Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among …
Proverbs 30:9 Lest I be full, and deny you, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I …
Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being …
2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there …
1 John 2:23 Whoever denies the Son, the same has not the Father: he that acknowledges …
Jude 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old …
If I rejoiced at the destruction of him that hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him:
2 Samuel 1:12 And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and …
2 Samuel 4:10,11 When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have …
2 Samuel 16:5-8 And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, there came out a man …
Psalm 35:13,14,25,26 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I …
Proverbs 17:5 Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker: and he that is glad …
Proverbs 24:17,18 Rejoice not when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad …
Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.
have
Exodus 23:4,5 If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall …
Matthew 5:43,44 You have heard that it has been said, You shall love your neighbor, …
Romans 12:14 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
1 Peter 2:22,23 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth…
1 Peter 3:9 Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise …
mouth. Heb. palate
Ecclesiastes 5:2,6 Be not rash with your mouth, and let not your heart be hasty to utter …
Matthew 5:22 But I say to you, That whoever is angry with his brother without …
Matthew 12:36 But I say to you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they …
James 3:6,9,10 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among …
If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
the men
1 Samuel 24:4,10 And the men of David said to him, Behold the day of which the LORD …
1 Samuel 26:8 Then said Abishai to David, God has delivered your enemy into your …
2 Samuel 16:9,10 Then said Abishai the son of Zeruiah to the king, Why should this …
2 Samuel 19:21,22 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei …
Jeremiah 40:15,16 Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly …
Luke 9:54,55 And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, …
Luke 22:50,51 And one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off …
Oh
Job 19:22 Why do you persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Psalm 27:2 When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came on me to eat up …
Psalm 35:25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them …
Proverbs 1:11,12,18 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk …
Micah 3:2,3 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from …
The stranger did not lodge in the street: but I opened my doors to the traveller.
The stranger
Job 31:17,18 Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless has not …
Genesis 19:2,3 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your …
Judges 19:15,20,21 And they turned aside thither, to go in and to lodge in Gibeah: and …
Isaiah 58:7 Is it not to deal your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the …
Matthew 25:35,40,44,45 For I was an hungered, and you gave me meat: I was thirsty, and you …
Romans 12:13 Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
1 Timothy 5:10 Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, …
Hebrews 13:2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained …
1 Peter 4:9 Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
traveller. or, way
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
Did I
Exodus 23:2 You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shall you speak …
Proverbs 29:25 The fear of man brings a snare: but whoever puts his trust in the …
Jeremiah 38:4,5,16,19 Therefore the princes said to the king, We beseech you, let this …
Matthew 27:20-26 But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they …
the contempt
Job 22:8 But as for the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honorable man …
Job 34:19 How much less to him that accepts not the persons of princes, nor …
Exodus 32:27 And he said to them, Thus said the LORD God of Israel, Put every …
Numbers 25:14,15 Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain …
Nehemiah 5:7 Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, …
Nehemiah 13:4-8,28 And before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of the …
2 Corinthians 5:16 Why from now on know we no man after the flesh: yes, though we have …
that I
Esther 4:11,14 All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, …
Proverbs 24:11,12 If you forbear to deliver them that are drawn to death, and those …
Amos 5:11-13 For as much therefore as your treading is on the poor, and you take …
Micah 7:3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, …
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
Oh
Job 13:3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
Job 17:3 Lay down now, put me in a surety with you; who is he that will strike …
Job 23:3-7 Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!…
Job 33:6 Behold, I am according to your wish in God's stead: I also am formed …
Job 38:1-3 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said…
Job 40:4,5 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer you? I will lay my hand on my mouth…
my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me. or, my sign is that the Almighty will answer me
Job 13:21,22 Withdraw your hand far from me: and let not your dread make me afraid…
Psalm 26:1 Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in my integrity: I have trusted …
mine
Job 13:24 Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?
Job 19:11,23,24 He has also kindled his wrath against me, and he counts me to him …
Job 33:10,11 Behold, he finds occasions against me, he counts me for his enemy…
Matthew 5:25 Agree with your adversary quickly, whiles you are in the way with …
Surely I would take it upon my shoulder, and bind it as a crown to me.
I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.
If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;
If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:
fruits. Heb. strength
Genesis 4:12 When you till the ground, it shall not from now on yield to you her …
caused the owners thereof to lose their life. Heb. caused the soul of the owners thereof to expire, or breathe out
1 Kings 21:13-16,19 And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: …
Proverbs 1:19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which takes …
Isaiah 26:21 For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants …
Ezekiel 22:6,12,13 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in you to their power …
Let thistles grow instead of wheat, and cockle instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.
thistles (Choach, probably the black thorn.) See on
2 Kings 14:9 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying…
Genesis 3:17,18 And to Adam he said, Because you have listened to the voice of your …
Isaiah 7:23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, …
Zephaniah 2:9 Therefore as I live, said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely …
Malachi 1:3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for …
cockle. or, noisome weeds. The
Psalm 72:20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.
