Job 31-33 - Covenant with My Eyes

Job Proclaims His Purity and Innocence

Job 31:1 LSB - [1] "I have cut a covenant with my eyes; How then could I gaze at a virgin?

Psa 119:37 LSB - [37] Cause my eyes to turn away from looking at worthlessness, And revive me in Your ways.

Mat 5:28 LSB - [28] but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Job 31:15 LSB - [15] "Did not He who made me in the womb make him, And the same one fashion us in the womb?

Elihu Answers in Anger

Job 32:1-3 LSB - [1] Then these three men ceased answering Job because he was righteous in his own eyes. [2] But the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, burned; against Job his anger burned because he was proving himself righteous before God. [3] And his anger burned against his three friends because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

Job 32:8 LSB - [8] "But it is a spirit in man, And the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.

Elihu Asks Job to Hear and Respond

Job 33:19 LSB - [19] "Man is also reproved with pain on his bed, And with unceasing contention in his bones,

i. “The chastisement of sickness and the flagellation of pain whip the sinner back to him who alone can save him. These are the black dogs of the Great Shepherd wherewith he brings back wandering sheep till they come again under his crook, and he leads them into green pastures.”

(Spurgeon)

Job 33:26-28 LSB -
[26] Then he will entreat God, and He will accept him,
And he will see His face with joyful shouts,
And He may restore His righteousness to man.
[27] "He will sing to men and say, 'I have sinned and perverted what is right,
But He has not done what is due to me.
[28] 'He has redeemed my soul from passing into the pit,
And my life shall see the light.'