Job 24:15 Cross References - BBE

¹⁵ And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about;

¹⁴ She took off her widow's clothing, and covering herself with her veil, she took her seat near Enaim on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was now a man, but she had not been made his wife. ¹⁵ When Judah saw her he took her to be a loose woman of the town, because her face was covered.

¹⁴ Do not be false to the married relation.

⁴ And David sent and took her; and she came to him, and he took her to his bed: for she had been made clean; then she went back to her house. ⁵ And the woman became with child; and she sent word to David that she was with child. ⁶ And David sent to Joab saying, Send Uriah the Hittite to me. And Joab sent Uriah to David. ⁷ And when Uriah came to him, David put questions to him about how Joab and the people were, and how the war was going. ⁸ And David said to Uriah, Go down to your house and let your feet be washed. And Uriah went away from the king's house, and an offering from the king was sent after him. ⁹ But Uriah took his rest at the door of the king's house, with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house. ¹⁰ And when word was given to David that Uriah had not gone down to his house, David said to Uriah, Have you not come from a journey? why did you not go down to your house? ¹¹ And Uriah said to David, Israel and Judah with the ark are living in tents, and my lord Joab and the other servants of my lord are sleeping in the open field; and am I to go to my house and take food and drink, and go to bed with my wife? By the living Lord, and by the life of your soul, I will not do such a thing. ¹² And David said to Uriah, Be here today, and after that I will let you go. So Uriah was in Jerusalem that day and the day after. ¹³ And when David sent for him, he took meat and drink with him, and David made him the worse for drink: and when evening came, he went to rest on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.

¹² You did it secretly; but I will do this thing before all Israel and in the light of the sun.

¹³ And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark? ¹⁴ Thick clouds are covering him, so that he is unable to see; and he is walking on the arch of heaven.

¹¹ He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.

¹⁸ When you saw a thief, you were in agreement with him, and you were joined with those who took other men's wives.

¹¹ And they say, How will the Lord see this? is there knowledge in the Most High?

⁷ And they say, Jah will not see it, the God of Jacob will not give thought to it.

³² He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul. ³³ Wounds will be his and loss of honour, and his shame may not be washed away. ³⁴ For bitter is the wrath of an angry husband; in the day of punishment he will have no mercy. ³⁵ He will not take any payment; and he will not make peace with you though your money offerings are increased.

⁹ At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night. ¹⁰ And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart;

¹² And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the responsible men of the children of Israel do in the dark, every man in his room of pictured images? for they say, The Lord does not see us; the Lord has gone away from the land.

⁹ Then he said to me, The sin of the children of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is full of blood and the town full of evil ways: for they say, The Lord has gone away from the land, and the Lord does not see.