The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
The verse is part of Job's defense before his friends, where he describes wicked men who remove landmarks, violently take away flocks, drive away the ass of the fatherless, take the widow's ox for a pledge, and turn the needy out of the way. Within that description, the verse portrays the adulterer as waiting for twilight and darkness and disguising his face because he believes no eye will see him. Job sets the lives of such wicked men against his own life of delivering the poor that cried and the fatherless and him that had none to help him, causing the widow's heart to sing for joy, and being eyes to the blind and feet to the lame and a father to the poor. That contrast is a most complete justification of self and a vindication of his own self-righteousness, showing that in all his dealing with others he had been upright. The verse belongs to Job's account teaching that the wicked prosper in this life but face punishment later.
The verse is part of Job's defense before his friends, where he describes wicked men who remove landmarks, violently take away flocks, drive away the ass of the fatherless, take the widow's ox for a pledge, and turn the needy out of the way. Within that description, the verse portrays the adulterer as waiting for twilight and darkness and disguising his face because he believes no eye will see him. Job sets the lives of such wicked men against his own life of delivering the poor that cried and the fatherless and him that had none to help him, causing the widow's heart to sing for joy, and being eyes to the blind and feet to the lame and a father to the poor. That contrast is a most complete justification of self and a vindication of his own self-righteousness, showing that in all his dealing with others he had been upright. The verse belongs to Job's account teaching that the wicked prosper in this life but face punishment later.