15And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.
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Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the righteous.
Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-24)The Lord here proceeds to ask Job many puzzling questions, to convince him of his ignorance, and so to shame him for his folly in prescribing to God. If we will but try ourselves with such interrogatories as these, we shall soon be brought to own that what we know is nothing in comparison with what we know not. Job is here challenged to give an account of six things:— I. Of the springs of the morn…
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