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Selected Verse: Job 24:15 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Job 24:15 |
King James |
The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
(Pro 7:9; Psa 10:11).
disguiseth--puts a veil on. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight; - compare the description in Pro 7:8-9, "He went the way to her house; in the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night."
And disguiseth his face - Margin, "setteth his face in secret." The meaning is, that he put a mask on his face, lest he should be recognized. So Juvenal, Sat. viii. 144, as quoted by Noyes:
- si nocturnus adulter
Tempora Santonico velas adoperta cucullo.
These deeds of wickedness were then performed in the night, as they are still; and yet, though the eye of God beheld them, he did not punish them. The meaning of Job is, that people were allowed to commit the blackest crimes, but that God did not come forth to cut them off. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| The eye also of the adulterer - This is another sin particularly of the city. The adulterer has made his assignation; he has marked the house of her into whose good graces he has insinuated himself, called digging through the house; he waits impatiently for the dusk; and then goes forth, having muffled or disguised his face, and spends a criminal night with the faithless wife of another man. The morning dawns: but it is to him as the shadow of death, lest he should be detected before he can reach his own home. And if one know him - if he happen to be recognized in coming out of the forbidden house; the terrors of death seize upon him, being afraid that the thing shall be brought to light, or that he shall be called to account, a sanguinary account, by the injured husband. This seems to be the general sense of the very natural picture which Job draws in the Job 24:15, Job 24:16, and Job 24:17. |
11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.