Job 24:15

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Summary

Job 24:15

The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

Eye

No eye

Disguiseth his face

Genesis 38:14

General references

Psalm 104:22

John 1:5

Bible References

Eye

Do not commit adultery.

David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. Now she had just been purifying herself from her uncleanness. Afterward, she returned home.

You acted in secret, but I will do this before all Israel and in broad daylight.’”

When you see a thief,
you make friends with him,
and you associate with adulterers.

The one who commits adultery lacks sense;
whoever does so destroys himself.

at twilight, in the evening,
in the dark of the night.

No eye

Yet you say: “What does God know?
Can He judge through thick darkness?

He says to himself, “God has forgotten;
He hides His face and will never see.”

The wicked say, “How can God know?
Does the Most High know everything?”

They say, “The Lord doesn’t see it.
The God of Jacob doesn’t pay attention.”

Then He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his idol? For they are saying, ‘The Lord does not see us. The Lord has abandoned the land.’”

He answered me: “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of bloodshed, and the city full of perversity. For they say, ‘The Lord has abandoned the land; He does not see.’

Disguiseth his face

So she took off her widow’s clothes, veiled her face, covered herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.

General references

The sun rises; they go back
and lie down in their dens.

That light shines in the darkness,
yet the darkness did not overcome it.