God’s Word Translation
Job 38:15
15Wicked people are deprived of their light, and an arm raised ⌞in victory⌟ is broken.
Job 38:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.
- New International Version (NIV)The wicked are denied their light, and their upraised arm is broken.
- English Standard Version (ESV)From the wicked their light is withheld, and their uplifted arm is broken.
- New King James Version (NKJV)From the wicked their light is withheld, And the upraised arm is broken.
Context of Job 38:15
13so that it could grab the earth by its edges and shake wicked people out of it? 14The earth changes like clay stamped by a seal, and ⌞parts of it⌟ stand out like ⌞folds in⌟ clothing. Wicked people are deprived of their light, and an arm raised ⌞in victory⌟ is broken. 16Have you gone to the springs in the sea or walked through the valleys of the ocean depths? 17Have the gateways to death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gateways to total darkness?
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וְיִמָּנַ֣ע מֵרְשָׁעִ֣ים אוֹרָ֑ם וּזְר֥וֹעַ רָ֝מָ֗ה תִּשָּׁבֵֽר׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 38:15
- Job 5:14In the daytime they meet darkness and grope in the sunlight as if it were night.
- Job 18:5“Indeed, the light of the wicked is snuffed out. The flame of his fire stops glowing.
- Exodus 10:21Then the Lord said to Moses, “Lift your hand toward the sky, and a darkness ⌞so thick⌟ that it can be felt will come over Egypt.”
- 2 Kings 6:18As the Arameans came down to get him, Elisha prayed to the Lord, “Please strike these people with blindness.” The Lord struck them with blindness, as Elisha had asked.
- Proverbs 4:19The way of wicked people is like deep darkness. They do not know what makes them stumble.
- Isaiah 8:21They will pass through the land when they are hard-pressed and hungry. When they are hungry, they will be furious. Then they will look up, cursing their king and God.
- Jeremiah 13:16Honor the Lord your God before it gets dark, before your feet stumble on the mountains in the twilight. You will look for light, but the Lord will turn it into the shadow of death and change it into deep darkness.
- Acts 13:10and said, “You are full of dirty tricks and schemes, you son of the devil! You hate everything that has God’s approval. Quit trying to distort the truth about the way the Lord wants people to live.
- Psalms 10:15Break the arm of the wicked and evil person. Punish his wickedness until you find no more.
- Psalms 37:17The arms of wicked people will be broken, but the Lord continues to support righteous people.
- Ezekiel 30:22“This is what the Almighty Lord says: I’m against Pharaoh, king of Egypt. I will break both his arms, the healthy one and the broken one. I will make the sword fall from his hand.
Commentaries on Job 38:15
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15And from the wicked their light is withholden - While the light thus spreads over the earth, rendering every object beautiful and blessing the righteous, light and prosperity are withheld from the wicked; see the notes at Job 24:17. Or, the meaning may be, that when the light shines upon the world, the wicked, accustomed to perform their deeds in the night, flee from it, and retreat to their dark hiding-places. And the high arm - Of the wicked. The arm is…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-24Verses 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 way in the government of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-41God 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).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 12-1512-15. 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.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 38
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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