Job 24:15-17 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 15. 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 15th, 16th, and 17th verses.

‏ Job 24:15-17

Verse 15. 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 15th, 16th, and 17th verses. Job 24:15-17

Verse 16. In the dark they dig through houses] Thieves in Bengal very frequently dig through the mud wall and under the clay floors of houses, and, entering unperceived, plunder them while the inhabitants are asleep.

Mr. Good's version of this paragraph I shall lay before the reader:-

Ver. 15. For the dark too watcheth the eye of the adulterer;

Exclaiming, No eye shall behold me.

Then putteth he the muffler on his face;

Ver. 16. He wormeth into houses amidst the darkness.

In the daytime they seal themselves up,

They know not the light:

Ver. 17. For, the dawn they reckon to themselves as the

death-shade;

The horrors of the death-shade as it returneth.