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Job 38:13 — King James Version← Study notes

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


Job 38:13Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 38:136 words
HebrewMeaning
לֶ֭/אֱחֹזleʾĕḥōz
to take holdpronH270
be affrighted · (catch · lay · take) hold ···
בְּ/כַנְפ֣וֹתbəkanəpwōt
on the corners ofpronH3671
bird · corner · end · feather ···
הָ/אָ֑רֶץhāʾāreṣ
the earthparticleH776
common · earth · field · ground ···
וְ/יִנָּעֲר֖וּwəyināʿărw
so they may be shakenconjH5287
out · self) · overthrow · toss up and down
רְשָׁעִ֣יםrəšāʿiym
wicked peopleadjH7563
condemned · ungodly · wicked · that did wrong
מִמֶּֽ/נָּהmimenāh
from itpronH4480
after · among · at · because of ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Job 38:13

Hast thou held and shaken the ends of the earth, and hast thou shaken the wicked out of it? For by ‘earth’ is designated man, who savours of things below; to whom it was said in his sin; Earth thou art, and to earth shall thou go. But because the merciful Creator forsakes not His own work, He both bears with the sins of men, by His wisdom, and at last remits them by their conversion. But, when He beholds hard and insensible minds, He scares them at one time with threats, at…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 29 §19
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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