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Salmos 139:12
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ni aun las tinieblas son oscuras para ti, y la noche brilla como el día. Las tinieblas y la luz son iguales para ti.
Aun las tinieblas no encubren de ti, y la noche resplandece como el d�a: lo mismo te son las tinieblas que la luz.
Aun las tinieblas no encubren de ti, y la noche resplandece como el d�a; las tinieblas son como la luz.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the darkness: Exodus 14:20, Exodus 20:21, Job 26:6, Job 34:22, Daniel 2:22, Hebrews 4:13
hideth not: Heb. darkeneth not
the darkness: etc. Heb. as is the darkness, so is the light
Reciprocal: Job 12:22 - discovereth Job 13:20 - hide myself Job 22:14 - General Ezekiel 16:36 - and thy Matthew 6:4 - seeth
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee,.... Any thing that is done by men in it; or "darkeneth not from thee" i, or causeth such darkness as to hinder the sight of any action committed. The Targum is,
"from thy Word;''
see Hebrews 4:12;
but the night shineth as the day; or "enlightens as the day" k, gives as much light with respect to God as the day does;
the darkness and the light [are] both alike [to thee]; as is the one, so is the other: the day gives him no more light than the night, and the night no more darkness than the day; he sees as well, as clearly and distinctly, in the one as in the other. The psalmist expresses the same thing in different words three or four times, as Kimchi observes, to show that so the Lord is, that thus it is with him; he has as clear a discerning of all things done in the darkest night as at bright noon day; see Job 34:21.
i לא יחשיך ממך "non obscurabit a te", Montanus; "non obtenebrant", Gejerus; so Michaelis. k יאיר "illustrat", Junius Tremellius "illuminabit", Gejerus Michaelis; so Ainsworth.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee - Margin, as in Hebrew, “darkeneth not.” Darkness does not make darkness to thee. It makes things dark to us; not to him. So it is in natural darkness; so in moral darkness ness. It seems dark to us; it is not so to him. Things appear dark to us - disappointment, bereavement, trouble, care, losses; but all is light to God. The existence of sin and suffering on the earth seems dark to us; not to him, for he sees the reasons and the end of all.
But the night shineth as the day - One is as bright and clear to him as the other.
The darkness and the light are both alike to thee - Margin, as in Hebrew, “As is the darkness so is the light.” To thee there is no difference. All is light.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 139:12. 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 the 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!
