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Job 38:15

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38:15Then from the wicked the light is withheld,

and the arm raised in violence29 is broken.30

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Footnotes

  1. 29 Heb “the raised arm.” The words “in violence” are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation to clarify the metaphor.
  2. 30 What is active at night, the violence symbolized by the raised arm, is broken with the dawn. G. R. Driver thought the whole verse referred to stars, and that the arm is the navigator’s term for the line of stars (“Two astronomical passages in the Old Testament,” 4 [1953]: 208–12).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

From the wicked their light is withheld,

and their uplifted arm is broken.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

The wicked are denied their light,

and their upraised arm is broken.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Light is withheld from the wicked,

and the arm raised in violence is broken.

NLTNew Living Translation

The light disturbs the wicked

and stops the arm that is raised in violence.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And their light is withheld from the wicked,

and their uplifted arm is broken.

KJV 1900King James Version

And from the wicked their light is withholden,

And the high arm shall be broken.