Psalms 119:37

Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity -Vain things; wicked things; things which would be likely to lead me astray from what is real and true. CompareIsaiah 33:15;Job 31:1. Margin, here, as in Hebrew, “make to pass.” Make my eyes to pass rapidly from such objects, that I may not look at them, may not contemplate them, may not dwell upon them. There is danger in looking on sin steadily; in surveying its features; in returning to contemplate it. An ugly object loses much of its deformity when we look often upon it; and this is a benevolent law, lest we should be miserable when we are under a necessity of looking on it.