Verse List for JOB 31:1

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B I ◄ ↨ Job 31:1 ↓ → ► ═ ©

Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Iyyov (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) I’ve made an agreement with my eyes, ⇔ ≈ about how I’ll be careful when I look at a young woman.

OET-LV A _covenant I _made to_eyes _of_my and_what will _I _look _carefully on a _virgin.

ULT I have cut a covenant with my eyes; ⇔  how then would I gaze upon a virgin?

UST I have made a solemn promise to myself that I will not look at a woman in a lustful way. ⇔  So I would not look at a woman who was not my wife and want to have sexual relations with her.

BSB & MSB [ “] I have made a covenant with my eyes. ⇔  How then could I gaze [with desire] at a virgin?

OEB No OEB JOB book available

WEBBE & WMBB ⇔  “I made a covenant with my eyes; ⇔  how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

NET “I made a covenant with my eyes; ⇔ how then could I entertain thoughts against a virgin?

LSV “I made a covenant for my eyes,
And how do I attend to a virgin?

FBV “I vowed to myself never to look with desire at young women.

T4T “I solemnly promised myself ⇔  that I would not look at a young woman with a desire to have sex with her.

LEB
• “I made a covenant with my eyes,
• so[fn] how could I look closely upon a virgin?

BBE I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin?

Moff I laid an interdict upon my eyes, ⇔  never to look with longing on a maiden.

JPS I made a covenant with mine eyes; how then should I look upon a maid?

ASV I made a covenant with mine eyes; ⇔ How then should I look upon a virgin?

DRA I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin.

YLT A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what — do I attend to a virgin?

Drby I made a covenant with mine eyes; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid?

RV I MADE a covenant with mine eyes; how then should I look upon a maid?

SLT I cut out a covenant for mine eyes; and why shall I show myself attentive to a virgin?

Wbstr I Made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

KJB-1769 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

KJB-1611 ¶ I made a couenant with mine eyes; why then should I thinke vpon a mayd?
(¶ I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a mayd?)

Bshps I made a couenaunt with myne eyes: why then should I loke vpon a mayden?
(I made a covenant with mine eyes: why then should I look upon a maiden?)

Gnva I made a couenant with mine eyes: why then should I thinke on a mayde?
(I made a covenant with mine eyes: why then should I think on a mayde?)

Cvdl I made a couenaunt wt myne eyes, yt I wolde not loke vpo a dasell.
(I made a covenant with mine eyes, it I would not look upon a girl/young_woman.)

Wycl I made couenaunt with myn iyen, that Y schulde not thenke of a virgyn.
(I made covenant with mine eyes, that I should not think of a virgin.)

Luth Ich habe einen Bund gemacht mit meinen Augen, daß ich nicht achtete auf eine Jungfrau.
(I have a federation/agreement made with my eyes, that I not paid_attention on/in/to a/one virgin.)

ClVg [Pepigi fœdus cum oculis meis, ut ne cogitarem quidem de virgine.[fn]
([Pepigi covenant when/with eyes mine, as not to_thinkm indeed from/about virgin.)

UHB בְּ֭רִית כָּרַ֣תִּי לְ⁠עֵינָ֑⁠י וּ⁠מָ֥ה אֶ֝תְבּוֹנֵ֗ן עַל־בְּתוּלָֽה׃ ‡

BrLXX Διαθήκην ἐθέμην τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς μου, καὶ οὐ συνήσω ἐπὶ παρθένον.

BrTr I made a covenant with mine eyes, and I will not think upon a virgin.