Job 38:15
Good News Translation
The light of day is too bright for the wicked and restrains them from doing violence.

New Revised Standard Version
Light is withheld from the wicked, and their uplifted arm is broken.

Contemporary English Version
But its light is too much for those who are evil, and their power is broken.

New American Bible
But from the wicked their light is withheld, and the arm of pride is shattered.

Douay-Rheims Bible
From the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the high arm shall be broken.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

From the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the high arm shall be broken.

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

Job 18:5,18 Shall not the light of the wicked be extinguished, and the flame of his fire not shine? . . .

Exodus 10:21-23 And the Lord said to Moses: Stretch out thy hand towards heaven: and may there be darkness upon the land of Egypt so thick that it may be felt. . . .

2 Kings 6:18 And the enemies came down to him: but Eliseus prayed to the Lord, saying: Strike, I beseech thee, this people with blindness: and the Lord struck them with blindness, according to the word of Eliseus.

Proverbs 4:19 My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear to my sayings.

Isaiah 8:21,22 And they shall pass by it, they shall fall, and be hungry: and when they shall be hungry, they will be angry, and curse their king, and their God, and look upwards. . . .

Jeremiah 13:16 Give ye glory to the Lord your God, before it be dark, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains: you shall look for light, and he will turn it into the shadow of death, and into darkness.

Acts 13:10,11 Said: O full of all guile and of all deceit, child of the devil, enemy of all justice, thou ceases not to pervert the right ways of the Lord. . . .

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Psalm 10:15 Break thou the arm of the sinner and of the malignant: his sin shall be sought, and shall not be found.

Psalm 37:17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken in pieces; but the Lord strengtheneth the just.

Ezekiel 30:22 Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I come against Pharao king of Egypt, and I will break into pieces his strong arm, which is already broken: and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand:

Context
God Challenges Job
14The seal shall be restored as clay, and shall stand as a garment. 15From the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the high arm shall be broken.16Hast thou entered into the depths of the sea, and walked in the lowest parts of the deep?…
Cross References
Numbers 15:30
But the soul that committeth any thing through pride, whether he be born in the land or a stranger (because he hath been rebellious against the Lord) shall be cut off from among his people:

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

Job 5:15
But he shall save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent.

Job 31:22
Let my shoulder fall from its joint, and let my arm with its bones be broken.

Job 38:14
The seal shall be restored as clay, and shall stand as a garment.

Psalm 10:15
Break thou the arm of the sinner and of the malignant: his sin shall be sought, and shall not be found.

Psalm 37:17
For the arms of the wicked shall be broken in pieces; but the Lord strengtheneth the just.

Job 38:14
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