King James Version
Job 24:15 in the King James Version says “The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face. disguiseth...” — study this verse from Job chapter 24 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face. disguiseth: Heb. setteth his face in secret”
Job 24:15 · KJV
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face. disguiseth: Heb. setteth his face in secret
In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
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.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“No eye”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
“waiteth”
H8104properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e., guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc
“for the twilight”
H5399properly, a breeze, i.e., (by implication) dusk (when the evening breeze prevails)
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“shall see”
H7789to spy out, i.e., (generally) survey, (for evil) lurk for, (for good) care for
“No eye”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
“me and disguiseth”
H5643a cover (in a good or a bad, a literal or a figurative sense)
“his face”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
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