Job 38:15

World English Bible (2000)

From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 10:15 : 15 Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.
  • Ps 37:17 : 17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds the righteous.
  • Job 18:5 : 5 "Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.
  • Ezek 30:22 : 22 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: 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, "Full of all deceit and all cunning, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? 11 Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind, not seeing the sun for a season!" Immediately a mist and darkness fell on him. He went around seeking someone 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 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt." 22 Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. 23 They didn't see one another, neither did anyone rise from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
  • 2 Kgs 6:18 : 18 When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to Yahweh, and said, "Please strike this people with blindness." He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.
  • Isa 8:21-22 : 21 They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry; and it will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward, 22 and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 37:17
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    17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken, but Yahweh upholds the righteous.

  • Job 18:5-7
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    5 "Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.

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

    7 The steps of his strength shall be shortened. His own counsel shall cast him down.

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

    14 It is changed as clay under the seal, and stands forth as a garment.

  • Ps 10:15
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    15 Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.

  • Ps 37:14-15
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    14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.

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

  • Job 31:22
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    22 then let my shoulder fall from the shoulder blade, and my arm be broken from the bone.

  • Isa 14:5
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    5 Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,

  • Prov 13:9
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    9 The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.

  • Job 38:16
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    16 "Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

  • Job 21:16-17
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    16 Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

    17 "How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

  • Job 22:9
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    9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

  • 1 Sam 2:4
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    4 "The bows of the mighty men are broken. Those who stumbled are armed with strength.

  • Job 38:24
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    24 By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?

  • Isa 30:13-14
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    13 therefore this iniquity shall be to you like a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly in an instant.

    14 He will break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won't be found among the broken piece a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."

  • Amos 5:9
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    9 who brings sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the fortress.

  • Job 28:4
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    4 He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.

  • Prov 6:15
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    15 Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

  • Job 35:9
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    9 "By reason of the multitude of oppressions they cry out. They cry for help by reason of the arm of the mighty.

  • Job 12:15
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    15 Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up. Again, he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

  • Job 18:16
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    16 His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.

  • Job 14:18
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    18 "But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place;

  • Job 36:17
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    17 "But you are full of the judgment of the wicked. Judgment and justice take hold of you.

  • Ps 125:3
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    3 For the scepter of wickedness won't remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won't use their hands to do evil.

  • Ps 37:38
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    38 As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.

  • Job 38:19
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    19 "What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

  • Hos 7:15
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    15 Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet they plot evil against me.

  • Job 38:10
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    10 marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,

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

  • Isa 29:15
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    15 Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us?" and "Who knows us?"

  • Job 17:12
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    12 They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

  • Prov 10:29
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    29 The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

  • Job 21:30
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    30 that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

  • Prov 21:7
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    7 The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.

  • Job 15:30
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    30 He shall not depart out of darkness. The flame shall dry up his branches. By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.

  • Job 5:14
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    14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

  • Jer 15:12
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    12 Can one break iron, even iron from the north, and brass?

  • Isa 13:11
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    11 I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the haughtiness of the terrible.

  • Jer 5:25
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    25 "Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withheld good from you.

  • Rom 11:10
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    10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Bow down their back always."

  • Job 3:17
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    17 There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest.

  • Prov 4:19
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    19 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.

  • Prov 24:20
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    20 for there will be no reward to the evil man; and the lamp of the wicked shall be snuffed out.

  • Job 10:3
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    3 Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

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    25 When he raises himself up, the mighty are afraid. They retreat before his thrashing.