Job 38:15

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And withheld from the wicked is their light, And the arm lifted up is broken.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 10:15 : 15 Break the arm of the wicked and the evil, Seek out his wickedness, find none;
  • Ps 37:17 : 17 For the arms of the wicked are shivered, And Jehovah is sustaining the righteous.
  • Job 18:5 : 5 Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.
  • Ezek 30:22 : 22 Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I `am' against Pharaoh, king of Egypt, And I have broken his arms, The strong one and the broken one, And have caused the sword to fall out of his hand,
  • Job 5:14 : 14 By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon.
  • Acts 13:10-11 : 10 said, `O full of all guile, and all profligacy, son of a devil, enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease perverting the right ways of the Lord? 11 and now, lo, a hand of the Lord `is' upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season;' and presently there fell upon him a mist and darkness, and he, going about, was seeking some to lead `him' by the hand;
  • Job 18:18 : 18 They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.
  • Exod 10:21-23 : 21 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Stretch out thy hand towards the heavens, and there is darkness over the land of Egypt, and the darkness is felt.' 22 And Moses stretcheth out his hand towards the heavens, and there is darkness -- thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days; 23 they have not seen one another, and none hath risen from his place three days; and to all the sons of Israel there hath been light in their dwellings.'
  • 2 Kgs 6:18 : 18 And they come down unto it, and Elisha prayeth unto Jehovah, and saith, `Smite, I pray Thee, this nation with blindness;' and He smiteth them with blindness, according to the word of Elisha.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked `is' as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.
  • Isa 8:21-22 : 21 -- And it hath passed over into it, hardened and hungry, And it hath come to pass, That it is hungry, and hath been wroth, And made light of its king, and of its God, And hath looked upwards. 22 And unto the land it looketh attentively, And lo, adversity and darkness! -- Dimness, distress, and thick darkness is driven away, But not the dimness for which she is in distress!
  • Jer 13:16 : 16 Give ye to Jehovah your God honour, Before He doth cause darkness, And before your feet stumble on dark mountains, And ye have waited for light, And He hath made it for death-shade, And hath appointed `it' for thick darkness.

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    17For the arms of the wicked are shivered, And Jehovah is sustaining the righteous.

  • Job 18:5-7
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    5Also, the light of the wicked is extinguished. And there doth not shine a spark of his fire.

    6The light hath been dark in his tent, And his lamp over him is extinguished.

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    13To take hold on the skirts of the earth, And the wicked are shaken out of it,

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  • Ps 10:15
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    15Break the arm of the wicked and the evil, Seek out his wickedness, find none;

  • Ps 37:14-15
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    14A sword have the wicked opened, And they have trodden their bow, To cause to fall the poor and needy, To slaughter the upright of the way.

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    22My shoulder from its blade let fall, And mine arm from the bone be broken.

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    5Ceased hath the golden one. Broken hath Jehovah the staff of the wicked, The sceptre of rulers.

  • Prov 13:9
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    9The light of the righteous rejoiceth, And the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.

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    16Hast thou come in to springs of the sea? And in searching the deep Hast thou walked up and down?

  • Job 21:16-17
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    16Lo, not in their hand `is' their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)

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    9Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.

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    4Bows of the mighty are broken, And the stumbling have girded on strength.

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    24Where `is' this, the way light is apportioned? It scattereth an east wind over the earth.

  • Isa 30:13-14
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    13Therefore is this iniquity to you as a breach falling, Swelled out in a wall set on high, Whose destruction suddenly, at an instant cometh.

    14And He hath broken it As the breaking of the potters' bottle, Beaten down -- He doth not spare, Nor is there found, in its beating down, A potsherd to take fire from the burning, And to draw out waters from a ditch.

  • Amos 5:9
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    9Who is brightening up the spoiled against the strong, And the spoiled against a fortress cometh.

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    4A stream hath broken out from a sojourner, Those forgotten of the foot, They were low, from man they wandered.

  • Prov 6:15
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    15Therefore suddenly cometh his calamity, Instantly he is broken -- and no healing.

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    9Because of the multitude of oppressions They cause to cry out, They cry because of the arm of the mighty.

  • Job 12:15
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    15Lo, He keepeth in the waters, and they are dried up, And he sendeth them forth, And they overturn the land.

  • Job 18:16
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    16From beneath his roots are dried up, And from above cut off is his crop.

  • Job 14:18
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    18And yet, a falling mountain wasteth away, And a rock is removed from its place.

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    17And the judgment of the wicked thou hast fulfilled, Judgment and justice are upheld -- because of fury,

  • Ps 125:3
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    3For the rod of wickedness resteth not On the lot of the righteous, That the righteous put not forth on iniquity their hands.

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    38And transgressors were destroyed together, The latter end of the wicked was cut off.

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    19Where `is' this -- the way light dwelleth? And darkness, where `is' this -- its place?

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    15And I instructed -- I strengthened their arms, And concerning Me they think evil!

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    10And I measure over it My statute, And place bar and doors,

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    18They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.

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    15Wo `to' those going deep from Jehovah to hide counsel, And whose works have been in darkness. And they say, `Who is seeing us? And who is knowing us?'

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    12Night for day they appoint, Light `is' near because of darkness.

  • Prov 10:29
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    29The way of Jehovah `is' strength to the perfect, And ruin to workers of iniquity.

  • Job 21:30
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    30That to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day of wrath they are brought.

  • Prov 21:7
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    7The spoil of the wicked catcheth them, Because they have refused to do judgment.

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    30He turneth not aside from darkness, His tender branch doth a flame dry up, And he turneth aside at the breath of His mouth!

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    14By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon.

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    12Doth one break iron -- northern iron, and brass?

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    11And I have appointed on the world evil, And on the wicked their iniquity, And have caused to cease the excellency of the proud, And the excellency of the terrible I make low.

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    25Your iniquities have turned these away, And your sins have kept the good from you.

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    10let their eyes be darkened -- not to behold, and their back do Thou always bow down.'

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    17There the wicked have ceased troubling, And there rest do the wearied in power.

  • Prov 4:19
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    19The way of the wicked `is' as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.

  • Prov 24:20
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    20For there is not a posterity to the evil, The lamp of the wicked is extinguished.

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    3Is it good for Thee that Thou dost oppress? That Thou despisest the labour of Thy hands, And on the counsel of the wicked hast shone?

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    25From his rising are the mighty afraid, From breakings they keep themselves free.