Job 38:15

15 Wicked people are deprived of their light, and an arm raised [in victory] is broken.

Job 38:15 Meaning and Commentary

Job 38:15

And from the wicked their light is withholden
Whose light is darkness, and whose day is the night, of which they are deprived when the morning light breaks forth; see ( Job 24:17 ) ; it may be figuratively understood of the light of prosperity being removed from them, or the light of life, when they shall be sent into utter darkness;

and the high arm shall be broken;
their power weakened and made useless; even the power of such wicked men who have had a large share of it, and have used it in a tyrannical manner; and especially this will be their case at death; see ( Isaiah 14:10 Isaiah 14:12 ) .

Job 38:15 In-Context

13 so that it could grab the earth by its edges and shake wicked people out of it?

14 The earth changes like clay stamped by a seal, and [parts of it] stand out like [folds in] clothing.

15 Wicked people are deprived of their light, and an arm raised [in victory] is broken.

16 Have you gone to the springs in the sea or walked through the valleys of the ocean depths?

17 Have the gateways to death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gateways to total darkness?