Job 38:15

And hast thou removed light from the ungodly, 1 And crushed the arm of the proud? 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

14Or didst thou take clay of the ground, and form a living creature, 1 And set it with the power of speech upon the earth? 1

16Or hast thou gone to the source of the sea, 1 And walked in the tracks of the deep? 1

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Cross References

2 Kings 6:18And they came down to him; and he prayed to 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 18:5But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, 1 And their flame shall not go up. 1

Job 24:13Why then has he not visited these? 1 Forasmuch as they were upon the earth, and took no notice, 1 And they knew not the way of righteousness, 1 Neither have they walked in their appointed paths? 1

Proverbs 4:19But the ways of the ungodly are dark; 1 They know not how they stumble. 1

Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and ye shall wait for light, and behold the shadow of death, and they shall be brought into 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 →

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