Job 38:15
That their light may be withdrawn from the lawless, and, the lofty arm, be shivered.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.
In Context
14It transformeth itself like the clay of a seal, so that things stand forth like one arrayed;
Cross References
2 Kings 6:18And, when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto Yahweh, and said—Smite, I beseech thee, this people, with sudden blindness. And he smote them with sudden blindness, according to the word of Elisha.
Job 18:5Even the light of the lawless, shall go out,—Neither shall shine the flame of his fire;
Job 24:13They, have become rebels against the light,—they are not acquainted with the ways thereof, neither abide they in the paths thereof.
Psalms 10:15Shatter thou the arm of the lawless one, And, as for the wrongful, wilt thou not enquire for his lawlessness—wilt thou not find [it]?
Proverbs 4:19The way of the lawless, is like darkness, they know not, at what they stumble.
Jeremiah 13:16Give ye to Yahweh your God—glory, Before he cause darkness, and Before your feet stumble upon the twilight mountains; Lest, when ye wait for light, He turn it into the shadow of death, And change it for 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 →