Job 38:15

In 11 translations

BSB

Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.

KJV

And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.

WEB

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

ASV

And from the wicked their light is withholden, And the high arm is broken.

LSV

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

YLT

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

DBY

And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the uplifted arm is broken.

DRC

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

GNV

And from the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the hie arme shalbe broken.

JPS

But from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm is broken.

LXXE

And hast thou removed light from the ungodly, and crushed the arm of the proud?

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WLC

וְיִמָּנַ֣ע מֵרְשָׁעִ֣ים אוֹרָ֑ם וּזְר֥וֹעַ רָ֝מָ֗ה תִּשָּׁבֵֽר׃Suspended letter(s). Shown as suspended letters without a superscript note number.

LXX-Br

Ἀφεῖλες δὲ ἀπὸ ἀσεβῶν τὸ φῶς, βραχίονα δὲ ὑπερηφάνων συνέτριψας;

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• Psalms 10:15Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.
• Job 18:5Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
• Psalms 37:17For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.
• Proverbs 4:19But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
• Job 5:14They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.
• Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
• Exodus 10:21–23Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that darkness may spread over the land of Egypt—a palpable darkness.” So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and total darkness covered all…
• Ezekiel 30:22Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt. I will break his arms, both the strong one and the one already broken, and will make the sword fall from his hand.
• 2 Kings 6:18As the Arameans came down against him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, “Please strike these people with blindness.” So He struck them with blindness, according to the word of Elisha.
• Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
• Isaiah 8:21–22They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God. Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and…
• Acts 13:10–11and said, “O child of the devil and enemy of all righteousness, you are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery! Will you never stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord? Now look, the hand of the Lord is against…

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