Job 24:15 Cross References - NSB

¹⁵ »The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight. He says: ‘No eye will see me.’ Then he disguises his face.

¹⁴ She realized that Shelah was now a grown man. She had not been allowed to marry him. So she decided to dress in something other than her widow’s clothes and to cover her face with a veil. Then she sat outside the town of Enaim on the road to Timnah. ¹⁵ Judah came along. He did not recognize her because of the veil. He thought she was a prostitute,

¹⁴ »Do not commit adultery.

⁴ So David sent messengers to get her. She came to him and they had sexual intercourse. She had just cleansed herself after her monthly period. Then she went home. ⁵ The woman became pregnant. So she sent someone to tell David that she was pregnant. ⁶ David sent a messenger to Joab, saying: »Send me Uriah the Hittite.« So Joab sent Uriah to David. ⁷ When Uriah arrived, David asked him how Joab and the troops were and how the war was going. ⁸ »Go home,« David said to Uriah, »and wash your feet.« Uriah left the royal palace, and the king sent a present to him. ⁹ But Uriah slept at the entrance of the royal palace among his superior’s mercenaries. He did not go home. ¹⁰ Someone told David that Uriah did not go home. So the next morning David asked him: »Why did you not go home? Have you been away for a long time?« ¹¹ Uriah answered: »The Ark of the Covenant and the armies of Israel and Judah are camping out somewhere in the fields with our commander Joab and his officers and troops. Do you think I would go home to eat and drink and sleep with my wife? I swear by your life that I would not!« ¹² David said: »Stay here in Jerusalem and I will send you back tomorrow.« Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next day. ¹³ David invited him for dinner. Uriah ate with David and drank so much that he got drunk. However he still did not go home. He went out and slept on his mat near the palace guards.

¹² »‘You did this secretly. I will make this happen in broad daylight in front of all Israel.’«

¹³ »So you say: ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness? ¹⁴ »‘Thick clouds enwrap him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the dome of the heavens.’«

¹¹ He says in his heart (to himself): »God has forgotten. He has hidden his face. He will never see it!«

¹⁸ »When you see a thief, you make friends with him. You keep company with people who commit adultery.

¹¹ They ask: How does God know? And is there knowledge with the most High?

⁷ They say: Jehovah does not see it. The God of Jacob does not even pay attention to it.

³² He who commits adultery with a woman lacks judgment and destroys himself. ³³ He will get wounds and be dishonored. His shame will not be wiped away. ³⁴ Jealousy enrages a man. He will not be spared in the day of vengeance. ³⁵ He will not regard any ransom, nor will he be content when you give many gifts.

⁹ In the twilight, in the evening, in the darkness of the night: ¹⁰ He met an evil hearted woman dressed seductively like an immoral woman.

¹² Then he said: »Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are committing in the dark, each man in the room of his carved images? For they say: ‘Jehovah does not see us! Jehovah has forsaken the land!’«

⁹ He answered me: »The wickedness of the nations of Israel and Judah is terrible! The land is filled with murder, and the city is filled with wrongdoing. They think that Jehovah has abandoned the land and that he does not see.