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Job 38:13

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38:13that it might seize the corners of the earth,25

and shake the wicked out of it?

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Footnotes

  1. 25 The poetic image is that darkness or night is like a blanket that covers the earth, and at dawn it is taken by the edges and shaken out. Since the wicked function under the cover of night, they are included in the shaking when the dawn comes up.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth,

and the wicked be shaken out of it?

NIVNew International Version (2011)

that it might take the earth by the edges

and shake the wicked out of it?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

so it may seize the edges of the earth

and shake the wicked out of it?

NLTNew Living Translation

Have you made daylight spread to the ends of the earth,

to bring an end to the night’s wickedness?

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

to take hold of the earth’s skirts

so that the wicked might be shaken off from it?

KJV 1900King James Version

That it might take hold of the ends of the earth,

That the wicked might be shaken out of it?