Holy Scripture

Job 38:15

A church father on this verse
“From the wicked their light shall be taken away, and the high arm shall be broken. [ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION] Because, while they refuse to believe the truth, they lose for ever the knowledge of the Law, and while they boast of having received the Law, they are, doubtless, blinded by boasting of their knowledge. For…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIX

Source: Septuagint

Original

15And hast thou removed light from the ungodly, And crushed the arm of the proud?

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In context

13To lay hold of the extremities of the earth, To cast out the ungodly out of it?

14Or didst thou take clay of the ground, and form a living creature, And set it with the power of speech upon the earth?

— Job 38:15 —

16Or hast thou gone to the source of the sea, And walked in the tracks of the deep?

17And do the gates of death open to thee for fear; And did the porters of hell quake when they saw thee?

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