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There is no darkness, nor thick gloom, Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
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God's Inescapable Sight
Commentators unanimously affirm that this verse teaches God's absolute omniscience. While people may hide their sins from others in literal or metaphorical darkness, no place exists—not the deepest gloom or even the grave itself—that can conceal a person from God's all-seeing eye. As one scholar notes, God will perceive all and drag them forth to judgment.
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Job
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18th Century
Presbyterian
There is no darkness - No dark cavern which can furnish a place of concealment. The guilty usually take refuge in some obscure place where p…
19th Century
Anglican
There is no darkness. —As Job had perhaps seemed to imply in Job 24:13-16.
Baptist
How gloriously is this great truth put! This Elihu was a man of real eloquence; what a weighty sentence is this! How worthy to be treasured up in t…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
[There is] no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. By whom may be meant chiefly profan…
Elihu appeals directly to Job himself. Could he suppose that God was like those earthly princes, who hate right, who are unfit to rule, and prove t…
13th Century
Catholic
After accusing Job of wanting to dispute with God, Elihu begins to dispute two points he had already mentioned (Job 33:9–12; [Reference…
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