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Even the darkness doesn`t hide from you, But the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
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God's Unhindered Vision
Commentators explain that God's ability to see is not like ours. As a spiritual being, He does not depend on physical light. For God, the deepest darkness is as bright as the midday sun. This highlights His absolute omniscience, which operates independently of the physical world's limitations.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee—Margin, as in Hebrew, “darkeneth not.”
Darkness does not make darkness to you. It mak…
19th Century
Anglican
Hides not.— It is better to keep as near as possible to the original maketh not dark. Others render cannot be too dar…
Baptist
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee, but the night shi…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Yea, the darkness hides not from you Any thing that is done by men in it; or "darkens not from you" F9 , …
We cannot see God, but he can see us. The psalmist did not desire to go from the Lord. Where can I go? In the most distant corners of the world, in…
