Job 24:15
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.”
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“The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.”
King James Version · Public Domain“The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, Saying, No eye shall see me: And he disguiseth his face.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“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 · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 24:15 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 38:14she removed her widow’s garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that although Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.
- Exodus 20:14You shall not commit adultery.
- 2 Samuel 11:4Then David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with her. (Now she had just purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned home.
- 2 Samuel 12:12You have acted in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.’”
- Job 22:13Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?
- Psalms 10:11He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”
- Psalms 50:18When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
- Psalms 73:11The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”
- Psalms 94:7They say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob pays no heed.”
- Proverbs 6:32He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.
- Proverbs 7:7I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment,
- Proverbs 7:9at twilight, as the day was fading into the dark of the night.
- Ezekiel 8:12“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”
- Ezekiel 9:9He replied, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.’
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