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 afforded; but as it discovereth their dark practices, Ephesians 5:13, so it bringeth them forth to condign punishment, Utpote indignos, qui hac luce fruantur.
And the high arm shall be broken] i.e. His strength, tyranny, and power, whereby he oppressed others as with an outstretched arm, lifted up to strike with violence, this shall be broken, as Moab's was, Jeremiah 48:1,47, and as all the wicked's shall be; but the Lord upholdeth the righteous, Psalms 37:17. It is well noted that this verse is an exposition of the latter part of Job 38:13, as the former verse was of the former part. And well might Mercer say of this and the three following Chapter s, Sunt haec alta et insignia, et nonnulla difficilia, these are things high, and excellent, and something dark and difficult