OLD TESTAMENT

Job 38:13

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

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Verse 13. And didst. Some explain Hebrew “that it (Aurora) might spread at once to the extremities of the earth. Then the wicked flee before it;” as they hate the light. Calmet. 34:26. John 3:20. Calmet.—Septuagint and Prot. may be understood in this sense. Bible.—Allusion may also be made to the shaking of a sieve, to separate the wheat from the chaff; (Amos 9:9. Luk. 22:31. Calmet.) or of a carpet, to clean it from the dust. D.—Did God ask thee to help him to exterminate the wicked? The short digression in these three verses, shews the punishment exercised on offenders. It is not contrary to the true spirit of poetry. Menochius.

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