Job 24:15
The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.
Majority Standard Bible
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In Context
16In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.
Cross References
Genesis 38:14she removed her widow’s garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that although Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.
2 Samuel 11:4Then David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. (Now she had just purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned home.
Job 22:13Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?
Psalms 50:18When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
Psalms 94:7They say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob pays no heed.”
Proverbs 7:7I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment,
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 →