Job 38:13
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And didst thou hold the extremities of the earth shaking them, and hast thou shaken the ungodly out of it?

take

Psalm 19:4-6 Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth: and their words unto the ends of the world. . . .

Psalm 139:9-12 If I take my wings early in the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea: . . .

ends.

Job 37:3 He beholdeth under all the heavens, and his light is upon the ends of the earth.

*marg:

the wicked

Job 24:13-17 They have been rebellious to the light, they have not known his ways, neither have they returned by his paths. . . .

Exodus 14:27 And when Moses had stretched forth his hand towards the sea, it returned at the first break of day to the former place: and as the Egyptians were fleeing away, the waters came upon them, and the Lord shut them up in the middle of the waves.

Psalm 104:21,22,35 The young lions roaring after their prey, and seeking their meat from God. . . .

Context
God Challenges Job
12Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place? 13And didst thou hold the extremities of the earth shaking them, and hast thou shaken the ungodly out of it?14The seal shall be restored as clay, and shall stand as a garment.…
Cross References
Job 28:24
For he beholdeth the ends of the world: and looketh on all things that are under heaven.

Job 34:25
For he knoweth their works: and therefore he shall bring night on them, and they shall be destroyed.

Job 34:26
He hath struck them, as being wicked, in open sight.

Job 36:6
But he saveth not the wicked, and he giveth judgment to the poor.

Job 37:3
He beholdeth under all the heavens, and his light is upon the ends of the earth.

Job 38:12
Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place?

Job 38:14
The seal shall be restored as clay, and shall stand as a garment.

Lexicon
that it might spread
לֶ֭אֱחֹז (le·’ĕ·ḥōz)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 270: To grasp, take hold, take possession

to the ends
בְּכַנְפ֣וֹת (bə·ḵan·p̄ō·wṯ)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 3671: An edge, extremity, a wing, a flap, a quarter, a pinnacle

of the earth
הָאָ֑רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land

and shake
וְיִנָּעֲר֖וּ (wə·yin·nā·‘ă·rū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5287: To shake, shake out or off

the wicked
רְשָׁעִ֣‪‬ים (rə·šā·‘îm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7563: Wrong, an, bad person

out of it?
מִמֶּֽנָּה׃ (mim·men·nāh)
Preposition | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4480: A part of, from, out of


Additional Translations
that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?

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

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

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

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

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

that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

To take hold on the skirts of the earth, And the wicked are shaken out of it,
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