Job 38:15

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 10:15 : 15 Break thou the arm of the wicked; And as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
  • Ps 37:17 : 17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken; But Jehovah upholdeth the righteous.
  • Job 18:5 : 5 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine.
  • Ezek 30:22 : 22 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong [arm], and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.
  • Job 5:14 : 14 They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
  • Acts 13:10-11 : 10 and said, O full of all guile and all villany, thou son of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? 11 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.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.
  • Exod 10:21-23 : 21 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. 22 And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days; 23 they saw not one another, neither rose any one from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
  • 2 Kgs 6:18 : 18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto Jehovah, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.
  • Isa 8:21-22 : 21 And they shall pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward: 22 and they shall look unto the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven away.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to Jehovah 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 17For the arms of the wicked shall be broken; But Jehovah upholdeth the righteous.

  • Job 18:5-7
    3 verses
    78%

    5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine.

    6The light shall be dark in his tent, And his lamp above him shall be put out.

    7The steps of his strength shall be straitened, And his own counsel shall cast him down.

  • Job 38:13-14
    2 verses
    77%

    13That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, And the wicked be shaken out of it?

    14It is changed as clay under the seal; And [all things] stand forth as a garment:

  • 15Break thou the arm of the wicked; And as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

  • Ps 37:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, To cast down the poor and needy, To slay such as are upright in the way.

    15Their sword shall enter into their own heart, And their bows shall be broken.

  • 22Then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder-blade, And mine arm be broken from the bone.

  • 5Jehovah hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers;

  • 9The light of the righteous rejoiceth; But the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

  • 16Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or hast thou walked in the recesses of the deep?

  • Job 21:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

    17How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity cometh upon them? That [God] distributeth sorrows in his anger?

  • 9Thou hast sent widows away empty, And the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • 4The bows of the mighty men are broken; And they that stumbled are girded with strength.

  • 24By what way is the light parted, Or the east wind scattered upon the earth?

  • Isa 30:13-14
    2 verses
    72%

    13therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly in an instant.

    14And he shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces thereof a sherd wherewith to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.

  • 9that bringeth sudden destruction upon the strong, so that destruction cometh upon the fortress.

  • 4He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn; They are forgotten of the foot; They hang afar from men, they swing to and fro.

  • 15Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; On a sudden shall he be broken, and that without remedy.

  • 9By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out; They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

  • 15Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

  • 16His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off.

  • 18But the mountain falling cometh to nought; And the rock is removed out of its place;

  • 17But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: Judgment and justice take hold [on thee] .

  • 3For the sceptre of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; That the righteous put not forth their hands unto iniquity.

  • 38As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together; The end of the wicked shall be cut off.

  • 19Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

  • 15Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet do they devise mischief against me.

  • 10And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors,

  • 18He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

  • 15Woe unto them that hide deep their counsel from Jehovah, and whose works are in the dark, and that say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

  • 12They change the night into day: The light, [say they], is near unto the darkness.

  • 29The way of Jehovah is a stronghold to the upright; But it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

  • 30That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

  • 7The violence of the wicked shall sweep them away, Because they refuse to do justice.

  • 30He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of [God's] mouth shall he go away.

  • 14They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.

  • 12Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass?

  • 11And I will punish the world for [their] evil, and the wicked for their iniquity: and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

  • 25Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good from you.

  • 10Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, And bow thou down their back always.

  • 17There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.

  • 19The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.

  • 20For there shall be no reward to the evil man; The lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

  • 3Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, That thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, And shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

  • 25When he raiseth himself up, the mighty are afraid: By reason of consternation they are beside themselves.