Job 38:13

So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?

In Context

12Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place;

14It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;

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Cross References

Exodus 14:27And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, at dawn the sea came flowing back, meeting the Egyptians in their flight, and the Lord sent destruction on the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.

Job 24:17For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

Psalms 19:4\19:3\There are no words or language; their voice makes no sound.

Psalms 104:21The young lions go thundering after their food; searching for their meat from God.

Psalms 139:9If I take the wings of the morning, and go to the farthest parts of the sea;

Matthew Henry on Job 38:13-25

Works of God. ( b. c. 1520.) 12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; 13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? 14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment. 15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken. 16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? 17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee?… Read the whole commentary →

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