Bible verse
Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.
Job 38:15 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 38.
11 and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?
12 In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
13 that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?
14 The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.
15 Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.
16 Have you journeyed to the vents of the sea or walked in the trenches of the deep?
17 Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
18 Have you surveyed the extent of the earth? Tell Me, if you know all this.
19 Where is the way to the home of light? Do you know where darkness resides,
KJV
And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.
ASV
And from the wicked their light is withholden, And the high arm is broken.
ERV
And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm is broken.
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