Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 31:2

2. For what portion of God is there , from above ? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high ?

The reason of my Continency and Chastity, was, the consideration of God's Presence, and Providence, and Judgments.

The reason of my Continency and Chastity, was, the consideration of God's Presence, and Providence, and Judgments.

What fruit or recompence might be expected from God for those who do such things? Nothing but destruction, as it follows, v. 3. I considered that though these practises might at first please me, yet they would be bitterness in the latter end.

An emphatical Phrase to note, that how secretly and [illegible: 1+ letters]liely soever unchast persons carry the matter, so as men cannot reprove or reproach them, yet there is one who stands upon an higher place whence he hath the better prospect, who seeth both when, and in what manner, and with what design they do these things.