15The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: …
Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.
Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-17)These verses describe another sort of sinners who therefore go unpunished, because they go undiscovered. They rebel against the light , Job 24:13. Some understand it figuratively: they sin against the light of nature, the light of God’s law, and that of their own consciences; they profess to know God, but they rebel against the knowledge they have of him, and will not be guided and governed, comma…
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