Job 38:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 10:15 : 15 Let the arm of the sinner and the evil-doer be broken; go on searching for his sin till there is no more.
  • Ps 37:17 : 17 For the arms of the evil-doers will be broken: but the Lord is the support of the good.
  • Job 18:5 : 5 For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.
  • Ezek 30:22 : 22 For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and by me his strong arm will be broken; and I will make the sword go out of his hand.
  • Job 5:14 : 14 In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.
  • Acts 13:10-11 : 10 O you, who are full of false tricks and evil ways, a son of the Evil One, hating all righteousness, will you for ever be turning people from the right ways of the Lord? 11 And now, see, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind and not able to see the sun for a time. And straight away a dark mist came down on him; and he went about looking for a guide.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.
  • Exod 10:21-23 : 21 And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out to heaven, and all the land of Egypt will be dark, so that men will be feeling their way about in the dark. 22 And when Moses' hand was stretched out, dark night came over all the land of Egypt for three days; 23 They were not able to see one another, and no one got up from his place for three days: but where the children of Israel were living it was light.
  • 2 Kgs 6:18 : 18 Now when the Aramaeans came down to Elisha, he made a prayer to the Lord saying, Lord, make this people blind. And he made them blind at Elisha's request.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.
  • Isa 8:21-22 : 21 And he will go through the land in bitter trouble and in need of food; and when he is unable to get food, he will become angry, cursing his king and his God, and his eyes will be turned to heaven on high; 22 And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

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    17 For the arms of the evil-doers will be broken: but the Lord is the support of the good.

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    5 For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.

    6 The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

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    15 Let the arm of the sinner and the evil-doer be broken; go on searching for his sin till there is no more.

  • Ps 37:14-15
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    14 The evil-doers have taken out their swords, their bows are bent; for crushing the poor, and to put to death those who are upright in their ways.

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    22 May my arm be pulled from my body, and be broken from its base.

  • Isa 14:5
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    5 The stick of the evil-doers, the rod of the rulers, is broken by the Lord;

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    9 There is a glad dawn for the upright man, but the light of the sinner will be put out.

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    16 Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

  • Job 21:16-17
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    16 Truly, is not their well-being in their power? (The purpose of the evil-doers is far from me.)

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    4 The bows of the men of war are broken, and the feeble are clothed with strength.

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    24 Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

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    13 This sin will be to you like a crack in a high wall, causing its fall suddenly and in a minute.

    14 And he will let it be broken as a potter's vessel is broken: it will be smashed to bits without mercy; so that there will not be a bit in which one may take fire from the fireplace, or water from the spring.

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    9 Who sends sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the walled town.

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    16 Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

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    18 He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

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    30 How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?

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    19 The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

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