Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

And [the] eye of [the] adulterer waits for dusk, saying, {'No eye will see me,'} and he places a covering [on his] face.

New American Standard Bible

“The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight,
Saying, ‘No eye will see me.’
And he disguises his face.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

The adulterer’s eye watches for twilight,
thinking: No eye will see me;
he covers his face.

International Standard Version

The adulterer watches for twilight, saying, "No eye is watching me' while he veils his face.

A Conservative Version

The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me. And he disguises his face.

American Standard Version

The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, Saying, No eye shall see me: And he disguiseth his face.

Amplified


“The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight,
Saying, ‘No eye will see me,’
And he covers his face.

Bible in Basic English

And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about;

Darby Translation

And the eye of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and he putteth a covering on his face.

Julia Smith Translation

And the eye of the adulterer watched the twilight, saying, Eye shall not perceive me: and secretly he will set the face.

King James 2000

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

Modern King James verseion

And the eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a covering on his face.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The eye of the ungodly is like the adulterer, that waiteth for the darkness, and sayeth thus in himself, 'Tush, there shall no man see me,' and so he disguiseth his face.

NET Bible

And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, thinking, 'No eye can see me,' and covers his face with a mask.

New Heart English Bible

The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, 'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face.

The Emphasized Bible

And, the eye of the adulterer, watcheth for the evening twilight, saying, Not an eye will see me! A covering for the face, he putteth on;

Webster

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

World English Bible

The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, 'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face.

Youngs Literal Translation

And the eye of an adulterer Hath observed the twilight, Saying, 'No eye doth behold me.' And he putteth the face in secret.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
The eye
עין 
`ayin 
Usage: 372

שׁמר 
Shamar 
Usage: 468

נשׁף 
Nesheph 
Usage: 12

שׁוּר 
Shuwr 
Usage: 17

Context Readings

Job's Eighth Speech, Continued

14 {At dusk} the murderer rises; he kills [the] needy and [the] poor, and in the night he is like a thief. 15 And [the] eye of [the] adulterer waits for dusk, saying, {'No eye will see me,'} and he places a covering [on his] face. 16 He digs through houses in the darkness; by day they shut themselves in-- they do not know [the] light


Cross References

Psalm 10:11

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

Genesis 38:14-15

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.

Exodus 20:14

"You shall not commit adultery.

2 Samuel 11:4-13

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.

2 Samuel 12:12

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

Job 22:13-14

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

Psalm 50:18

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

Psalm 73:11

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

Psalm 94:7

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

Proverbs 6:32-35

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

Proverbs 7:9-10

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

Ezekiel 8:12

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.'"

Ezekiel 9:9

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}.

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