Job 38:15 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken. ”

• Job 38:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  And from the wicked their light is withholden - While the light thus spreads over the earth, rendering every object beautiful and blessing the righteous, light and prosperity are withheld from th...

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• Job 38:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Wonders of the Inanimate Creation. Where was Job when the earth was made? The work of creation is described as the building of a house. In Job 38:7 the stars, which are older than the world (...

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• Job 38:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.

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• Job 38:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; Passing from creation to phenomena in the existing inanimate world. Verse 12. Hast thou - as God...

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• Job 38:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The First Speech of the Almighty ( Job 38:39 ) The marvels of creation, which witness to the infinite wisdom, power, and watchful care of the Creator, are presented to Job in such a way as to forc...

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• Job 38:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  XXVII. "MUSIC IN THE BOUNDS OF LAW" Job 38:1-41 OVER the shadowed life of Job, and the world shadowed for him by his own intellectual and moral gloom, a storm sweeps, and from the storm issues...

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• Job 38:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Divine Power and Human Ignorance Job 38:1-18 When the storm had ceased and the thunder was hushed, a voice spoke out of the golden splendor of the sky. See Job 37:21-22 . Job had challenged Go...

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• Job 38:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Here begins the third movement in the great drama, that which deals with the controversy between Jehovah and Job. Out of the midst of the whirlwind the divine voice speaks. Its first word is a challe...

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• Job 38:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (4) В¶ Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. (5) Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?...

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• Job 38:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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 fi...

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• Job 38:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken. Ver. 15. And from the wicked their light is withholden ] They have no such joy of those comforts which the light af...

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• Job 38:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And , or, rather, but, from the wicked their light is withholden The earth, and the men and the things in it, have the comfort and benefit of the light, but so have not the wicked; they enjoy not...

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• Job 38:15 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  Marvellously, God Himself directly intervenes in this discussion so early in the history of man. The storm that had been brewing as Elihu spoke becomes a whirlwind, and God spoke to Job out of the wh...

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• Job 38:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Works of God. B. C. 1520.       12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and cau...

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• Job 38:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  And, or but ; for the following words seem to be added by way of opposition to what went before. The earth, and the men, and the things in it have the comfort and benefit of the light, but so have...

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• Job 38:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  JEHOVAH’S ADDRESS TO JOB Elihu had now said all he intended. Possibly interrupted by the storm which had been gathering during his speech. Out of the storm-cloud, from which already issued thund...

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• Job 38:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Job 38:1 . The whirlwind. Clouds and flames are the chariots of the Lord, in deigning to speak with men. When he spake to Elijah in Horeb, it was with wind, and fire, and earthquake. Likewise in...

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• Job 38:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  CLOSE OF THE CONTROVERSY BY THE INTERFERENCE OF THE ALMIGHTY . EXPOSITION The discourse, by which the Almighty answers Job and rebukes his "friends," occupies four chapters (...

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• Job 38:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Manifestation of God's Majesty in Creation

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• Job 38:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Kings 6:18 ; Acts 13:10 ; Acts 13:11 ; Exodus 10:21-23 ; Ezekiel 30:22 ; Isaiah 8:21 ; Isaiah 8:22 ; Jeremiah 13:16 ; Job 18:18 ; Job 18:5 ; Job 5:14 ; Proverbs 4:19 ; Psalms 10:15 ;...

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• Job 38:15 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  God Speaks to Job Job 38:1-41 to Job 42:1-17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS God's words to Job do not carry much by way of the explanation of redemption. Job was a child of God, and well-instructed...

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• Job 38:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Withheld — That light which enjoyed by others is withholden from them, either by their own choice, because they chuse darkness rather than light; or by the judgment of God, or the magistrate, by wh...

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