“Deep affect is tightly united with this verse. Not even at the time, he says, when the sweetness of the harp softened my ears did I allow any lustful feeling to dwell in my heart, even though the sounds tuned with art affected the senses. "I have made a covenant with my eyes." After the search for justice and the feel…”
Julian of Eclanum, 5th c. — EXPOSITION ON THE BOOK OF JOB 31:1
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1I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
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— Job 31:1 —
2For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
3Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?