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King James Bible - Psalms 139:12

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SEV Biblia, Chapter 139:12

Aun las tinieblas no encubren de ti, y la noche resplandece como el día; las tinieblas son como la luz.

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Clarke's Bible Commentary - Psalms 138:12

Verse 12. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee ] Darkness and light, ignorance and knowledge, are things that stand in relation to us; God sees equally in darkness as in light; and knows as perfectly, however man is enveloped in ignorance, as if all were intellectual brightness. What is to us hidden by darkness, or unknown through ignorance, is perfectly seen and known by God; because he is all sight, all hearing, all feeling, all soul, all spirit-all in ALL, and infinite in himself. He lends to every thing; receives nothing from any thing. Though his essence be unimpartible, yet his influence is diffusible through time and through eternity. Thus God makes himself known, seen, heard, felt; yet, in the infinity of his essence, neither angel, nor spirit, nor man can see him; nor can any creature comprehend him, or form any idea of the mode of his existence. And yet vain man would be wise, and ascertain his foreknowledge, eternal purposes, infinite decrees, with all operations of infinite love and infinite hatred, and their objects specifically and nominally, from all eternity, as if himself had possessed a being and powers co-extensive with the Deity! O ye wise fools! Jehovah, the fountain of eternal perfection and love, is as unlike your creeds as he is unlike yourselves, forgers of doctrines to prove that Ithe source of infinite benevolence is a streamlet of capricious love to thousands, while he is an overflowing, eternal, and irresistible tide of hatred to millions of millions both of angels and men! The antiproof of such doctrines is this: he bears with such blasphemies, and does not consume their abettors. "But nobody holds these doctrines." Then I have written against nobody; and have only to add the prayer, May no such doctrines ever disgrace the page of history; or farther dishonour, as they have done, the annals of the Church!

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Matthew Henry Commentary

Verses 7-16 - We cannot see God, but he can see us. The psalmist did not desire to go from the Lord. Whither can I go? In the most distant corners of the world, in heaven, or in hell, I cannot go out of thy reach. No veil can hide us from God; not the thickest darkness. No disguise can save an person or action from being seen in the true light by him. Secre haunts of sin are as open before God as the most open villanies. On the other hand, the believer cannot be removed from the supporting comforting presence of his Almighty Friend. Should the persecutor tak his life, his soul will the sooner ascend to heaven. The grave cannot separate his body from the love of his Saviour, who will raise it glorious body. No outward circumstances can separate him from his Lord While in the path of duty, he may be happy in any situation, by the exercise of faith, hope, and prayer.

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Original Hebrew

גם 1571 חשׁך 2822 לא 3808  יחשׁיך 2821 ממך 4480 ולילה 3915 כיום 3117 יאיר 215 כחשׁיכה 2825 כאורה׃ 219