Job 24:15
And the eye of an adulterer Hath observed the twilight, Saying, 'No eye doth behold me.' And he putteth the face in secret.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
16He hath dug in the darkness — houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.
Cross References
Genesis 38:14and she turneth aside the garments of her widowhood from off her, and covereth herself with a vail, and wrappeth herself up, and sitteth in the opening of Enayim, which [is] by the way to Timnath, for she hath seen that Shelah hath grown up, and she hath not been given to him for a wife.
2 Samuel 11:4And David sendeth messengers, and taketh her, and she cometh unto him, and he lieth with her — and she is purifying herself from her uncleanness — and she turneth back unto her house;
Job 22:13And thou hast said, 'What — hath God known? Through thickness doth He judge?
Psalms 50:18If thou hast seen a thief, Then thou art pleased with him, And with adulterers [is] thy portion.
Psalms 94:7And they say, 'Jehovah doth not see, And the God of Jacob doth not consider.'
Proverbs 7:7And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking 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 →