Job 38:15

Translations

Modern

Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.

Traditional

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

Literal

And their light is withheld from the wicked, and the arm upraised is broken.

Latin

…auferetur ab impiis lux sua, et brachium excelsum confringetur.

Original

Hebrew

English

Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.

Notes

Job 38:1–40:5

God challenges Job. Job admits he cannot judge the moral world. God shows Job's ignorance of the natural world's elements related to the realm of heaven, weather, animals, and birds (38:4–21; 22–38; 39–39:30).

Theme notes and profiles

Complaints God’s Uniqueness

Events

Job's Trial

Related verses

Psalm 10:15
Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.
Psalm 37:17
For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.
Job 18:5
Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
Proverbs 4:19
But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
Job 18:18
He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
Job 5:14
They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
Ezekiel 30:22
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt. I will break his arms, both the strong one and the one already broken, and will make the sword fall from his hand.
Exodus 10:21–23
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that darkness may spread over the land of Egypt—a palpable darkness.”
Jeremiah 13:16
Give 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.
Isaiah 8:21–22
They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.
2 Kings 6:18
As 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.
Acts 13:10–11
…and said, “O child of the devil and enemy of all righteousness, you are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery! Will you never stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord?

Glossary

Book of Job Proverbs, Book of Wisdom Literature

Topics

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