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Bible in Basic English

So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

so it may seize the edges of the earth
and shake the wicked out of it?

International Standard Version

where it seizes the edge of the earth and shakes the wicked out of it?

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


So that light may take hold of the corners of the earth
And shake the wickedness out of it?

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

To take hold upon the wings of the earth, and the unjust shall be shaken out of it?

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

to take hold of the earth's skirts so that the wicked might be shaken off from it?

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

that it might take hold of the corners of the earth, and that the ungodly might be shaken out?

NET Bible

that it might seize the corners of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

That it might lay hold of the wings of the earth, and the lawless be shaken out of it?

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אחז 
'achaz 
Usage: 66

of the ends
כּנף 
Kanaph 
Usage: 109

of the earth
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

that the wicked
רשׁע 
Rasha` 
Usage: 263

נער 
Na`ar 
Usage: 10

References

Fausets

Context Readings

Yahweh Interrogates Job

12 Have you, from your earliest days, given orders to the morning, or made the dawn conscious of its place; 13 So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it? 14 It is changed like wet earth under a stamp, and is coloured like a robe;


Cross References

Job 37:3

He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth.

Psalm 104:35

Let sinners be cut off from the earth, and let all evil-doers come to an end. Give praise to the Lord, O my soul. Give praise to the Lord.

Exodus 14:27

And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, at dawn the sea came flowing back, meeting the Egyptians in their flight, and the Lord sent destruction on the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.

Job 24:13-17

Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them.

Psalm 19:4-6

Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he put a tent for the sun,

Psalm 104:21-22

The young lions go thundering after their food; searching for their meat from God.

Psalm 139:9-12

If I take the wings of the morning, and go to the farthest parts of the sea;

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