KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 38:15–16
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Job 38:15
15And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken.
15And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arme shalbe broken.
Job 38:16
16Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
16Hast thou entred into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth?
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 38:15
Visible brightness; something that gives illumination; not heavy; to kindle, illuminate, or come down upon, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
withholden
Withheld; held back, restrained, kept from being given, or refused.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Raised or far above; great in height, rank, degree, or importance; as an adverb, greatly or aloft.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Job 38:16
Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience; also used as an auxiliary verb.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Went or came in; was admitted, introduced, or penetrated.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Sources or streams of water flowing from the ground.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To seek carefully, examine, explore, or inquire in order to find or know.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Deepness, a deep place, the sea, abyss, or downward or inward extent.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 15
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Open the full verse study15Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
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Open the full verse study5Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
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Open the full verse study17For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the Lord upholdeth the righteous.
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Open the full verse study19The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
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Open the full verse study21¶ And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.
22And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:
23They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
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Open the full verse study22Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.
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Open the full verse study18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
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Open the full verse study14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
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Open the full verse study18And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the Lord, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
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Open the full verse study21And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
22And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
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Open the full verse study16Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.
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Open the full verse study10And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
11And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.
From verse 16
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Open the full verse study24When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
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Open the full verse study5Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
6Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
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Open the full verse study19Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
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Open the full verse study36Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
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