Job 38:15
Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.
In Context
14The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.
16Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?
Cross References
2 Kings 6:18As the Arameans came down against him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, “Please strike these people with blindness.” So He struck them with blindness, according to the word of Elisha.
Job 18:5Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
Job 24:13Then there are those who rebel against the light, not knowing its ways or staying on its paths.
Psalms 10:15Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.
Proverbs 4:19But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick 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 →