Job 24:15
The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face.
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In Context
14The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
Cross References
Genesis 38:14She took off the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife.
2 Samuel 11:4David 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 22:13You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
Psalms 50:18When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.
Psalms 94:7They say, “The LORD will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”
Proverbs 7:7I saw amongst the simple ones. I discerned amongst 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 →