Job 38:15
And from the wicked is their light withdrawn, and the high-raised arm is broken.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.
In Context
14She is changed as the sealing-clay: and [all things] stand as though newly clad.
Cross References
2 Kings 6:18And when they came down to him, Elisha' prayed unto the Lord, and said, Smite, I pray thee, this people with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha'.
Job 18:5Ah, truly the light of the wicked will be quenched, and the spark of his fire shall not give light.
Job 24:13Yon men are of those that rebel against the light: they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.
Psalms 10:15Break thou the arm of the wicked; and of the bad man—thou wilt inquire for his wickedness [till] thou find none.
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is like darkness: they know not against what they stumble.
Jeremiah 13:16Give unto the Lord your God glory, before he cause darkness, and before your feet strike upon the mountains of twilight, and [where], while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and change it into gross darkness.
Matthew Henry on Job 38:13-25
Works of God. ( b. c. 1520.) 12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; 13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? 14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment. 15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken. 16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? 17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee?… Read the whole commentary →