Job 38:13

To lay hold of the extremities of the earth, 1 To cast out the ungodly out of it? 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

12Or did I order the morning light in thy time; 1 And did the morning star then first see his appointed place; 1

14Or didst thou take clay of the ground, and form a living creature, 1 And set it with the power of speech upon the earth? 1

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Cross References

Exodus 14:27And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the water returned to its place toward day; and the Egyptians fled from the water, and the Lord shook off the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

Job 24:17For the morning is to them all as the shadow of death, 1 For each will be conscious of the terror of the shadow of death. 1

Psalms 19:4Remember all thy sacrifice, 1 And enrich thy whole burnt offering. Pause. 1

Psalms 104:21He made him Lord over his house, 1 And ruler of all his substance; 1

Psalms 139:9Deliver me not, O Lord, to the sinner, according to my desire: 1 They have devised mischief against me; 1 Forsake me not, lest they should be exalted. Pause. 1

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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