Job 38:15
When it becomes daylight, the wicked do not have the darkness that they like; in the daylight they no longer are able to raise up their arms, ready to hurt people.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.
In Context
Cross References
2 Kings 6:18When the army of Syria prepared to attack Elisha, he prayed again, saying, “Yahweh, cause all these soldiers to become blind!” Yahweh answered his prayer and caused them to be unable to see clearly.
Job 18:5“What will happen is that the lives of wicked people like you end as quickly as we can put out a light or extinguish the flame of a fire.
Job 24:13Some wicked people avoid the light because they do evil things in the dark; they do not walk on roads that are lighted.
Psalms 10:15◄Break the arms/Destroy the power► of wicked [DOU] people! Continue to pursue and punish them for the wicked things that they do, until they stop doing those things.
Proverbs 4:19But the behavior of wicked people is like deep/thick darkness. Because it is very dark, they cannot see the things that cause them to stumble.
Jeremiah 13:16It is as though he is ready to bring darkness on you and to cause you to stumble and fall as you walk on the hills when it is becoming dark. So praise/honor Yahweh your God before that happens. If you do not do that, you will look for light, but all you will see is darkness and gloom.
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 →