Job 38:13
To take hold on the skirts of the earth, || And the wicked are shaken out of it,
Literal Standard Version
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 commanded morning since your days? Do you cause the dawn to know its place?
14It turns itself as clay of a seal || And they station themselves as clothed.
Cross References
Exodus 14:27And Moses stretches out his hand toward the sea, and the sea turns back, at the turning of the morning, to its perennial flow, and the Egyptians are fleeing at its coming, and YHWH shakes off the Egyptians in the midst of the sea,
Job 24:17When together, morning [is] death-shade to them, || When he discerns the terrors of death-shade.
Psalms 19:4Their line has gone forth into all the earth, || And their sayings to the end of the world, || In them He placed a tent for the sun,
Psalms 104:21The young lions are roaring for prey, || And to seek their food from God.
Psalms 139:9I take the wings of morning, || I dwell in the uttermost part 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 →