Covenant: An issue of the heart ...
Job 31:1-2 New English Translation (NET Bible)
31 “I made a covenant with my eyes;
how then could I entertain thoughts against a virgin?
2 What then would be one’s lot from God above,
one’s heritage from the Almighty on high?
“I made a covenant with my eyes”... to look on what is in my sight.
It simply means that what I see ... is in the “power” of my rights.
I can decide to look at what ... or just to pass it by.
Oh my! Doesn’t that work ... and that without an inner-fight?
There is a craving deep in me ... that wants to look at wrong.
It enjoys it seems immensely ... when I show not to be strong.
A flabbergasting fool I am ... when I just close my eyes
to remove visions from inside ... to be corrupted in my flight.
A covenant with the eyes just means ... that the strength in the first.
Not in the eyes or brains ... which in unrighteousness just thirst.
A covenant I hunger for ... can’t be kept by me alone,
but with the help from the Lord it's as light as snow at home.
Jan Wienen