And he took a broken bit of a pot, and, seated in the dust, was rubbing himself with the sharp edge of it.

Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands?

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

They take a grip of one another; they are joined together, so that they may not be parted.