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Verse         Translation Text
Job 38:13 Strong Concordance That it might take hold [0270] of the ends [03671] of the earth [0776], that the wicked [07563] might be shaken out [05287] of it?
  King James That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
take hold of the ends, &c.--spread itself over the earth to its utmost bounds in a moment.

wicked--who hate the light, and do their evil works in the dark (Job 24:13).

shaken out of it--The corners (Hebrew, "wings" or "skirts") of it, as of a garment, are taken hold of by the dayspring, so as to shake off the wicked.
 
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13 They are of those that rebel [04775] against the light [0216]; they know [05234] not the ways [01870] thereof, nor abide [03427] in the paths [05410] thereof.
13 They are of those that rebel [04775] against the light [0216]; they know [05234] not the ways [01870] thereof, nor abide [03427] in the paths [05410] thereof.
14 The murderer [07523] rising [06965] with the light [0216] killeth [06991] the poor [06041] and needy [034], and in the night [03915] is as a thief [01590].
15 The eye [05869] also of the adulterer [05003] waiteth [08104] for the twilight [05399], saying [0559], No eye [05869] shall see [07789] me: and disguiseth [05643] [07760] his face [06440].
16 In the dark [02822] they dig through [02864] houses [01004], which they had marked [02856] for themselves in the daytime [03119]: they know [03045] not the light [0216].
17 For the morning [01242] is to them even as [03162] the shadow of death [06757]: if one know [05234] them, they are in the terrors [01091] of the shadow of death [06757].