Job 38 · Verse 15

Job 38:15

And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.
Job 38:15, King James Version

Job 38:15 in other translations

BSBLight is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.
WEBFrom the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.
ASVAnd from the wicked their light is withholden, And the high arm is broken.
YLTAnd withheld from the wicked is their light, And the arm lifted up is broken.
DARBYAnd from the wicked their light is withholden, and the uplifted arm is broken.
BBEAnd from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.
WebsterAnd from the wicked their light is withheld, and the high arm shall be broken.

What does Job 38:15 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 38:12-15

12-15. Passing from creation to phenomena in the existing inanimate world. Hast thou--as God daily does. commanded the morning--to rise. since thy days--since thou hast come into being. his place--It varies in its place of rising from day to day, and yet it has its place each day according to fixed laws.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 38:12-24

The Lord questions Job, to convince him of his ignorance, and shame him for his folly in prescribing to God. If we thus try ourselves, we shall soon be brought to own that what we know is nothing in comparison with what we know not. By the tender mercy of our God, the Day-spring from on high has visited us, to give light to those that sit in darkness, whose hearts are turned to it as clay to the seal, 2Co 4:6. God's…

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Job 38:15 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְיִמָּנַ֣עve.yi.ma.Na'so it may be withheldH4513
מֵרְשָׁעִ֣יםme.re.sha.'Imfrom wicked [people]H7563
אוֹרָ֑ם'o.Ramlight theirH216
וּזְר֥וֹעַu.ze.Ro.a'and an armH2220
רָ֝מָ֗הra.MahupliftedH7311
תִּשָּׁבֵֽר\׃ti.sha.Verit is brokenH7665

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 38:15

  • Psalms 10:15

    Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

  • Psalms 37:17

    For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the Lord upholdeth the righteous.

  • Job 18:5

    Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

  • Proverbs 4:19

    The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

  • Ezekiel 30:22

    Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

  • Job 5:14

    They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

  • Job 18:18

    He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

  • Exodus 10:21-23

    And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days: They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

  • Jeremiah 13:16

    Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

  • 2 Kings 6:18

    And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the Lord, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.

  • Isaiah 8:21-22

    And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward. And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

  • Acts 13:10-11

    And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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5:14; 18:5,18; Ex 10:21-23; 2Ki 6:18; Pr 4:19; Isa 8:21,22
Jer 13:16; Ac 13:10,11
the high.
Ps 10:15; 37:17; Eze 30:22

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Context

  • Job 38:14

    It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment.

  • Job 38:15

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

  • Job 38:16

    Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?

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Job 38:15 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Mas la luz de los impíos es quitada de ellos, y el brazo enaltecido es quebrantado.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et leur lumière est ôtée aux méchants, et le bras levé est cassé.
German
Elberfelder 1871		und den Gesetzlosen wird ihr Licht entzogen, und der erhobene Arm wird zerbrochen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		auferetur ab impiis lux sua, et brachium excelsum confringetur.