Job 24:15

“ ‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’

You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”

Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”

who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

Lay hands hastily on no one. Don’t be a participant in other people’s sins. Keep yourself pure.

“ ‘You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife, and defile yourself with her.

“You shall not commit adultery.

Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and didn’t listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?

They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”

My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent.

“ ‘Make chains; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Saul disguised himself and put on other clothing, and went, he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night. Then he said, “Please consult for me by the familiar spirit, and bring me up whomever I shall name to you.”

So they spread a tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

Jeroboam said to his wife, “Please get up and disguise yourself, so that you won’t be recognized as Jeroboam’s wife. Go to Shiloh. Behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who said that I would be king over this people.

Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; in addition to his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.

If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. The light around me will be night,”

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

For you have trusted in your wickedness. You have said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and your knowledge has perverted you. You have said in your heart, ‘I am, and there is no one else besides me.’

Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You didn’t find them breaking in, but it is because of all these things.

For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.

Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.

Her adversaries have become the head. Her enemies prosper; for Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions. Her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.

Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their works.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside.

“You shall not commit adultery.

For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn away from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days, because you will do that which is evil in Yahweh’s sight, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.”

For you did this secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.’ ”

and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Yahweh would not pardon.

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but you put on your robes.” So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went into the battle.

They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.

For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges;

He says in his heart, “I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble.”

lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him;” lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.

won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”

They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”

They say, “Yah will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”

who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

“How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses.

Seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel stood before them. In the middle of them Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan stood, every man with his censer in his hand; and the smell of the cloud of incense went up.

Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? For they say, ‘Yahweh doesn’t see us. Yahweh has forsaken the land.’ ”

Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? You will again see yet greater abominations than these.”

Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger. Behold, they put the branch to their nose.

Then he said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion; for they say, ‘Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn’t see.’

Then some of the elders of Israel came to me, and sat before me.

In the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, some of the elders of Israel came to inquire of Yahweh, and sat before me.

They don’t consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.

Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”

and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’

For it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.