Job 34:22

“[There is] no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.] By whom may be meant chiefly profane sinners that are abandoned to a vicious course of life, and make a trade of sin, or that the common course of their lives; though secret sinners, and even professors of religion, hypocrites, who in a more private manner live in sin, come under this name, (<400723>Matthew 7:23); such may endeavour to hide themselves through shame and fear, but all in vain and to no purpose; there is no screening themselves and their actions from the all-seeing eye of God, and from his wrath and vengeance. “No darkness” of any sort can hide them, not the thick clouds of the…”

“shadow of death--thick darkness (Amo 9:2-3; Psa 139:12).”

“There is no darkness - No dark cavern which can furnish a place of concealment. The guilty usually take refuge in some obscure place where people cannot detect them. But Elihu says that man has no power of concealing himself thus from God. Nor shadow of death - A phrase here signifying deep darkness; see it explained in the notes at Job 3:5. Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves - That is, where they may conceal themselves so as not to be detected by God. They may conceal themselves from the notice of man; they may escape the most vigilant police; they may elude all the officers of justice on earth. But they cannot be hid from God. There is an eye that sees their lurking places,…”

“34:22 The wicked might try to hide in darkness (Jer 23:24), but they will fail (Ps 139:11-12; cp. Amos 9:2-3). God brings everything to light (1 Cor 4:5).”

“no: Psa 139:11, Psa 139:12; Isa 29:15; Jer 23:24; Amo 9:2, Amo 9:3; Co1 4:5; Heb 4:13; Rev 6:15, Rev 6:16 nor: Job 3:5, Job 24:17; Isa 9:2 the: Job 31:3; Psa 5:5; Pro 10:29; Mat 7:23; Luk 13:27 Job 34:23”