Job 38:15

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The light is withheld from the wicked, and the uplifted arm is broken.

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  • Ps 10:15 : 15 Break the arm of the wicked and the evildoer! Call him to account for his wickedness until it is no more found.
  • Ps 37:17 : 17 For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD supports the righteous.
  • Job 18:5 : 5 Indeed, the light of the wicked will be extinguished, and the flame of his fire will not shine.
  • Ezek 30:22 : 22 Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: 'Behold, I am against Pharaoh, king of Egypt. I will break both his strong arm and his broken one and cause the sword to fall from his hand.'
  • Job 5:14 : 14 They encounter darkness by day and grope in the noonday as if it were night.
  • Acts 13:10-11 : 10 And he said, 'You are full of all deceit and all fraud, son of the devil, enemy of all righteousness! Will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?' 11 And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and unable to see the sun for a time. Immediately, a mist and darkness fell upon him, and he went about seeking someone to lead him by the hand.
  • Job 18:18 : 18 He is driven from light into darkness and chased out of the world.
  • Exod 10:21-23 : 21 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that darkness may spread over Egypt—a darkness that can be felt." 22 So Moses stretched out his hand toward the sky, and thick darkness covered all Egypt for three days. 23 No one could see anyone else or move from their place for three days. But all the Israelites had light where they lived.
  • 2 Kgs 6:18 : 18 As the enemy came down toward him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, "Please strike this army with blindness." So He struck them with blindness, as Elisha had requested.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble.
  • Isa 8:21-22 : 21 Distressed and hungry, they will roam through the land; when they are famished, they will become enraged, and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God. 22 Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, and before your feet stumble on the darkening mountains. You hope for light, but He will turn it to gloom and thick darkness.

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  • 17 For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD supports the righteous.

  • Job 18:5-7
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    5 Indeed, the light of the wicked will be extinguished, and the flame of his fire will not shine.

    6 The light in his tent will grow dark, and the lamp above him will be extinguished.

    7 His vigorous steps will be restricted, and his own counsel will cast him down.

  • Job 38:13-14
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    13 that it might take hold of the edges of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?

    14 The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features stand out like a garment.

  • 15 Break the arm of the wicked and the evildoer! Call him to account for his wickedness until it is no more found.

  • Ps 37:14-15
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    14 The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows to bring down the poor and the needy, to slaughter those whose ways are upright.

    15 But their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.

  • 22 then let my shoulder fall from its socket, and let my arm be broken off at the joint.

  • 5 The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,

  • 9 The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.

  • 16 Have you journeyed to the springs of the sea or walked in the recesses of the deep?

  • Job 21:16-17
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    16 But their prosperity is not in their own hands, so the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

    17 How often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished? Disaster comes upon them as calamities God apportions in his anger.

  • 9 You sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.

  • 4 'The bows of the mighty are broken, but those who stumbled are armed with strength.'

  • 24 What is the way to the place where the light is divided, or the east wind scattered over the earth?

  • Isa 30:13-14
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    13 'this sin will become for you like a high wall, cracked and bulging, that collapses suddenly, in an instant.'

    14 'Its collapse will be like that of a jar shattered into pieces so small that no fragment can be used to scoop fire from the hearth or draw water from a cistern.'

  • 9 He flashes destruction upon the mighty and brings ruin upon the fortified city.

  • 4 He cuts a shaft far from where people dwell; forgotten by travelers, they dangle and swing to and fro far from humankind.

  • 15 Therefore his disaster will come suddenly; in an instant, he will be broken beyond healing.

  • 9 People cry out because of the multitude of oppressions; they plead for help because of the power of the mighty.

  • 15 "If He holds back the waters, they dry up; if He sends them out, they overwhelm the earth."

  • 16 His roots below will dry up, and his branches above will wither.

  • 18 But as a mountain crumbles and falls and a rock is displaced from its place,

  • 17 But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; justice and judgment take hold of you.

  • 3 For the scepter of the wicked will not rest on the land allotted to the righteous, so that the righteous will not put forth their hands to do wrong.

  • 38 But the transgressors will all be destroyed; the future of the wicked will be cut off.

  • 19 Where is the way that light dwells, and where is the place of darkness,

  • 15 I disciplined them and strengthened their arms, yet they devise evil against me.

  • 10 when I set its boundary and placed bars and doors on it,

  • 18 He is driven from light into darkness and chased out of the world.

  • 15 Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from the LORD, who do their work in darkness and think, 'Who sees us? Who knows us?'

  • 12 They make night into day: ‘The light is near,’ they say, in the presence of darkness.

  • 29 The way of the LORD is a stronghold to the blameless, but it is ruin to evildoers.

  • 30 That the wicked are spared in the day of calamity, that they are brought forth in the day of wrath?

  • 7 The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to act justly.

  • 30 He will not escape from darkness; a flame will dry up his branch, and the breath of God's mouth will carry him away.

  • 14 They encounter darkness by day and grope in the noonday as if it were night.

  • 12 Can iron break iron from the north, or bronze?

  • 11 I will punish the world for its evil, the wicked for their sins. I will put an end to the arrogance of the proud and humble the pride of the ruthless.

  • 25 Your iniquities have diverted these blessings, and your sins have withheld good things from you.

  • 10 "Let their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever."

  • 17 There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.

  • 19 The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble.

  • 20 For the wicked have no future; the light of the wicked will be snuffed out.

  • 3 Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands, while You favor the plans of the wicked?

  • 25 Nothing on earth is his equal, a creature without fear.