Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
Ver. 15. Woe unto them that seek deep to hide.] That carry two faces under a hood, as all formalists and double-minded persons do, desirous to deceive the world, and, if it were possible, God himself also, with their pretences and professions, and to cozen him of heaven.
To hide their counsel.] Their cunning contrivances, ut ita libere in omnes veneres et scelera ruant.
From the Lord.] Which cannot be, because he is all eye, and the searcher of hearts; he is intimo nostro intimior nobis, and will bring to light the hidden things of darkness. 1Co 4:5
Their works are in the dark.] Out of sight, but not out of the light of his countenance. Psa 90:8 Deo obscura liquent, muta respondent, silentium confitetur. "All things are naked and open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do." Heb 4:13 Sin not therefore in hope of secrecy; Si non caste tamen caute, will prove too short a covering.
And say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?] God doth, to be sure, whoever doth not; hold this fast against that natural atheism which is in us all. See Eze 9:9 Romans 3:18. See Trapp on " Rom 3:18 "