Verse 8

The Judgment Oracles of God at the Fall Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God moving about in the orchard at the breezy time of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the orchard.

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 23:24 : 24 “Do you really think anyone can hide himself where I cannot see him?” the LORD asks.“Do you not know that I am everywhere?” the LORD asks.
  • Ps 139:1-9 : 1 For the music director, a psalm of David. O LORD, you examine me and know. 2 You know when I sit down and when I get up; even from far away you understand my motives. 3 You carefully observe me when I travel or when I lie down to rest; you are aware of everything I do. 4 Certainly my tongue does not frame a word without you, O LORD, being thoroughly aware of it. 5 You squeeze me in from behind and in front; you place your hand on me. 6 Your knowledge is beyond my comprehension; it is so far beyond me, I am unable to fathom it. 7 Where can I go to escape your Spirit? Where can I flee to escape your presence? 8 If I were to ascend to heaven, you would be there. If I were to sprawl out in Sheol, there you would be. 9 If I were to fly away on the wings of the dawn, and settle down on the other side of the sea, 10 even there your hand would guide me, your right hand would grab hold of me. 11 If I were to say,“Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,” 12 even the darkness is not too dark for you to see, and the night is as bright as day; darkness and light are the same to you.
  • Job 22:14 : 14 Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us, as he goes back and forth in the vault of heaven.’
  • Job 31:33 : 33 if I have covered my transgressions as men do, by hiding iniquity in my heart,
  • Job 34:21-22 : 21 For his eyes are on the ways of an individual, he observes all a person’s steps. 22 There is no darkness, and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.
  • Job 38:1 : 1 VI. The Divine Speeches(38:1-42:6)The Lord’s First Speech Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind:
  • Gen 3:10 : 10 The man replied,“I heard you moving about in the orchard, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”
  • Deut 4:33 : 33 Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it?
  • Deut 5:25 : 25 But now, why should we die, because this intense fire will consume us! If we keep hearing the voice of the LORD our God we will die!
  • Deut 23:14 : 14 For the LORD your God walks about in the middle of your camp to deliver you and defeat your enemies for you. Therefore your camp should be holy, so that he does not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.
  • Prov 15:3 : 3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, keeping watch on those who are evil and those who are good.
  • Amos 9:2-3 : 2 Even if they could dig down into the netherworld, my hand would pull them up from there. Even if they could climb up to heaven, I would drag them down from there. 3 Even if they were to hide on the top of Mount Carmel, I would hunt them down and take them from there. Even if they tried to hide from me at the bottom of the sea, from there I would command the Sea Serpent to bite them.
  • Jonah 1:3 : 3 Instead, Jonah immediately headed off to Tarshish to escape from the commission of the LORD. He traveled to Joppa and found a merchant ship heading to Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went aboard it to go with them to Tarshish far away from the LORD.
  • Jonah 1:9-9 : 9 He said to them,“I am a Hebrew! And I worship the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.” 10 Hearing this, the men became even more afraid and said to him,“What have you done?”(The men said this because they knew that he was trying to escape from the LORD, because he had previously told them.)
  • Rom 2:15 : 15 They show that the work of the law is written in their hearts, as their conscience bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or else defend them,
  • Heb 4:13 : 13 And no creature is hidden from God, but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.