Job 24:15

And the eye of the adulterer has watched for the darkness, 1 Saying, Eye shall not perceive me, and he puts a covering on his face. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

14But having known their works, he delivered them into darkness: 1 And in the night one will be as a thief: 1

16In darkness he digs through houses: 1 By day they conceal themselves securely: 1 They know not the light. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 38:14And having taken off the garments of her widowhood from her, she put on a veil, and ornamented her face, and sat by the gates of Enaim, which is in the way to Timnah, for she saw that Shelah was grown; but he gave her not to him for a wife.

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

Job 22:13And thou hast said, What does the Mighty One know? 1 Does he judge in the dark? 1

Psalms 50:18For if thou desiredst sacrifice, I would have given it: 1 Thou wilt not take pleasure in whole burnt offerings. 1

Psalms 94:7For he is our God; 1 And we are the people of his pasture, 1 And the sheep of his hand. 1

Proverbs 7:7Passing by the corner in the passages near her house, 1

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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