Job 38:15

15 And their light is withheld from [the] wicked, and [their] uplifted arm 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 to take hold of the earth's skirts so that the wicked might be shaken off from it?

14 It is changed like clay [under] a seal, and they appear like a garment.

15 And their light is withheld from [the] wicked, and [their] uplifted arm is broken.

16 "Have you entered into [the] sea's sources? Or have you walked around in [the] recesses of the deep?

17 Have [the] gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen [the] gates of deep shadow?