Job 24:15

The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me. And he disguises his face.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

In Context

14The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. And in the night he is as a thief.

16In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They do not know the light.

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Cross References

Genesis 38:14And she put the garments of her widowhood off from her, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah, for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she was not give

2 Samuel 11:4And David sent messengers, and took her. And she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness), and she returned to her house.

Job 22:13And thou say, What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

Psalms 50:18When thou saw a thief, thou consented with him, and have been partaker with adulterers.

Psalms 94:7And they say, LORD will not see, nor will the God of Jacob consider.

Proverbs 7:7and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding

Matthew Henry on Job 24:14-18

Present Impunity of Transgressors. ( b. c. 1520.) 13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof. 14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. 15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face. 16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light. 17 For the morning is to… Read the whole commentary →

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