Job 24:15

And the eye of the adulterer watcheth for the twilight, saying, No eye will see me; and placeth a covering on his face.

Leeser Tanakh

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

14With the earliest light riseth the murderer, he slayeth the poor and needy, and in the night he becometh like the thief.

16They break into houses in the dark, in the daytime they lock themselves in: they know not the light.

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Cross References

Genesis 38:14And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered herself with a vail, and concealed her face, and seated herself at the cross-road, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him for wife.

2 Samuel 11:4And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her, and she had just purified herself from her uncleanness; and she returned unto her house.

Job 22:13But thou sayest, “What doth God know? can he judge behind the darkness?

Psalms 50:18When thou seest a thief, then art thou pleased with him, and with adulterers hast thou thy portion.

Psalms 94:7And they say, The Lord will not see, and the God of Jacob will not take notice of it.

Proverbs 7:7And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a lad void of sense;

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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