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

"You shall not commit adultery.

Then David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) And she returned to her house.

Though you did this in secret, I will do this thing before all of Israel {in broad daylight}!'"

When you see a thief, then you are pleased with him, and your association [is] with adulterers.

He who commits adultery [with] a woman lacks {sense}, he destroys himself who does it.

at twilight, at [the] day's evening, in [the] midst of night and the darkness.

No eye

And you ask, 'What does God know? Can he judge through deep gloom?

He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He has hidden his face. He never sees."

And they say, "How does God know?" and, "Does the Most High have knowledge?"

while they say, "Yah does not see," and "The God of Jacob does not pay attention."

And he said to me, "Have you seen, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel [are] doing in the dark, each in the inner rooms of his idol, for [they are] saying, 'Yahweh [is] not seeing us; Yahweh has abandoned the land.'"

And he said to me, "The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah [is] {exceedingly} great, and the land is filled with bloodguilt, and the city is full of injustice. For they say Yahweh abandoned the land, and {Yahweh does not see}.

Disguiseth his face

So she removed the clothes of her widowhood and covered [herself] with the veil and disguised herself. And she sat at the entrance to Eynayim, which [is] on the way to Timnah, for she saw that Shelah was grown but she had not been given to him as a wife.

General references

[When] the sun rises, they gather together and lie down in their dens.

And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.