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15 The eye of an adulterer keeps watch for twilight.
He says, “No eye can get a good look at me.”
He wears a mask over his face.
16 In the dark of night he digs into houses.
By day such people hide inside.
They keep away from the light.
17 For all of them, morning is their darkness.[a]
They are familiar with the sudden terror of darkness.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 24:17 This is the same Hebrew word often translated shadow of death. Here it seems to be the similar word that means darkness.