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OET (OET-RV) I’ve made an agreement with my eyes,
⇔ ≈about how I’ll be careful when I look at a young woman.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
בְּ֭רִית כָּרַ֣תִּי לְעֵינָ֑י
covenant made with,eyes,my
In this culture, people would say that they had cut a covenant because making a covenant often involved a ceremony in which the two parties would cut up an animal and walk between the cut-up pieces. Jeremiah 34:18 refers to such a ceremony, and Genesis 15:8–19 describes God making a covenant with Abraham in this way. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “I have made a covenant with my eyes”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / personification
בְּ֭רִית כָּרַ֣תִּי לְעֵינָ֑י
covenant made with,eyes,my
Job is speaking of his eyes as if they were living things with which he could make a covenant. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “I have resolved to exercise self-control regarding what I look at”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
וּמָ֥ה אֶ֝תְבּוֹנֵ֗ן עַל־בְּתוּלָֽה
and,how look on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in virgin
Job is using the question form for emphasis. If you would not use the question form for that purpose in your language, you could translate this as a statement or as an exclamation. Alternate translation: “I would not gaze upon a virgin!”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
וּמָ֥ה אֶ֝תְבּוֹנֵ֗ן
and,how look
Job means implicitly that he would not gaze lustfully. You could indicate that in your translation if it would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: “how then would I gaze lustfully” or “I would not gaze lustfully”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
עַל־בְּתוּלָֽה
on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in virgin
Job is using one kind of woman, a virgin, to mean women in general. He is not saying that if a woman had not had sexual relations with anyone, he would not look at her lustfully, but if a woman had had sexual relations, then he might look at her lustfully. Job is mentioning a virgin as one example of a woman whom he might be tempted to look at that way. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “at a woman”
31:1 Job’s covenant with his eyes included a self-cursing oath (cp. Matt 5:28-29). Perhaps lust of the eyes was at the head of Job’s list because the eye is the first instrument of sin (Gen 3:6).
• To look with lust at a young woman violates the spirit of the seventh (Deut 5:18, see Matt 5:27-28), and potentially the tenth (Deut 5:21), commandment.
OET (OET-RV) I’ve made an agreement with my eyes,
⇔ ≈about how I’ll be careful when I look at a young woman.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.