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Job 31:1 Meaning & Commentary – Covenant with My Eyes

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

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My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

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My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

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I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

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I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

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My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

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When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

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Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

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Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

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For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.