From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.

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    From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.

  • KJV King James Version

    And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    But from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm is broken.

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Cross-references (12)

Passages linked to Job 38:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Psalms 10:15 Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.
  • Job 18:5 “Yes, the light of the wicked will be put out. The spark of his fire won’t shine.
  • Psalms 37:17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds the righteous.
  • Proverbs 4:19 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.
  • Exodus 10:21-23 Yahweh said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.” Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt for three days. They didn’t see one another, and nobody rose from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
  • Job 5:14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
  • Job 18:18 He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
  • Ezekiel 30:22 Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong arm, and that which was broken. I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.
  • 2 Kings 6:18 When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please strike this people with blindness.” He struck them with blindness according to Elishah’s word.
  • Isaiah 8:21-22 They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry. It will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward, and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.
  • Jeremiah 13:16 Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.
  • Acts 13:10-11 and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!” Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him. He went around seeking someone to lead him by the hand.

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Job 38:15 And from the wicked their light is…

Job 38:15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.

Ver. 15. And from the wicked their light is withholden] They have no such joy of those comforts which the light afforded; but as it discovereth their dark practices, Eph 5:13, so it bringeth them forth to condign punishment, Utpote indignos, qui hac luce fruantur.

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And the high arm shall be broken] i.e. His strength, tyranny, and power, whereby he oppressed others as with an outstretched arm, lifted up to strike with violence, this shall be broken, as Moab’s was, Jer 48:1-47, and as all the wicked’s shall be; but the Lord upholdeth the righteous, Psa 37:17. It is well noted that this verse is an exposition of the latter part of Job 38:13, as the former verse was of the former part. And well might Mercer say of this and the three following chapters, Sunt haec alta et insignia, et nonnulla difficilia, these are things high, and excellent, and something dark and difficult

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain And, or but; for the following words seem to…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And from the wicked their light is withholden,.... Whose…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Withheld - That light which enjoyed by others is…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Job 38:15. And, or, rather, but, from the wicked…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain And from the wicked their light is withholden -…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain their light--by which they work; namely, darkness, which is…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 15. Their light — Darkness is their light, (Delitzsch,…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 15. shall be broken] Rather, is broken. The “light”…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And from the wicked their light is withholden. Then,…

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