Job 38:13

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 37:3 : 3 Under the whole heaven he lets it go, even his lightning to the far corners of the earth.
  • Ps 104:35 : 35 May sinners disappear from the earth, and the wicked vanish! Praise the LORD, O my soul! Praise the LORD!
  • Ps 139:9-9 : 9 If I were to fly away on the wings of the dawn, and settle down on the other side of the sea, 10 even there your hand would guide me, your right hand would grab hold of me. 11 If I were to say,“Certainly the darkness will cover me, and the light will turn to night all around me,” 12 even the darkness is not too dark for you to see, and the night is as bright as day; darkness and light are the same to you.
  • Ps 19:4-6 : 4 Yet its voice echoes throughout the earth; its words carry to the distant horizon. In the sky he has pitched a tent for the sun. 5 Like a bridegroom it emerges from its chamber; like a strong man it enjoys running its course. 6 It emerges from the distant horizon, and goes from one end of the sky to the other; nothing can escape its heat.
  • Ps 104:21-22 : 21 The lions roar for prey, seeking their food from God. 22 When the sun rises, they withdraw and sleep in their dens.
  • Exod 14:27 : 27 So Moses extended his hand toward the sea, and the sea returned to its normal state when the sun began to rise. Now the Egyptians were fleeing before it, but the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the middle of the sea.
  • Job 24:13-17 : 13 There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths. 14 Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief. 15 And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, thinking,‘No eye can see me,’ and covers his face with a mask. 16 In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light. 17 For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness; they are friends with the terrors of darkness.

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  • Job 9:5-6
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    5He who removes mountains suddenly, who overturns them in his anger;

    6he who shakes the earth out of its place so that its pillars tremble;

  • Job 38:14-16
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    14The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features are dyed like a garment.

    15Then from the wicked the light is withheld, and the arm raised in violence is broken.

    16Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep?

  • 4You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, will the earth be abandoned for your sake? Or will a rock be moved from its place?

  • 12Have you ever in your life commanded the morning, or made the dawn know its place,

  • Job 38:18-20
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    18Have you considered the vast expanses of the earth? Tell me, if you know it all!

    19“In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,

    20that you may take them to their borders and perceive the pathways to their homes?

  • 24In what direction is lightning dispersed, or the east winds scattered over the earth?

  • 13So I will shake the heavens, and the earth will shake loose from its foundation, because of the fury of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, in the day he vents his raging anger.

  • 13Who entrusted to him the earth? And who put him over the whole world?

  • 33Do you know the laws of the heavens, or can you set up their rule over the earth?

  • Job 38:4-6
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    4God’s questions to Job“Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you possess understanding!

    5Who set its measurements– if you know– or who stretched a measuring line across it?

    6On what were its bases set, or who laid its cornerstone–

  • 38when the dust hardens into a mass, and the clumps of earth stick together?

  • 9On the flinty rock man has set to work with his hand; he has overturned mountains at their bases.

  • 7The earth heaved and shook; the roots of the mountains trembled; they heaved because he was angry.

  • 21so they themselves can go into the crevices of the rocky cliffs and the openings under the rocky overhangs, trying to escape the dreadful judgment of the LORD and his royal splendor, when he rises up to terrify the earth.

  • 16Those who see you stare at you, they look at you carefully, thinking:“Is this the man who shook the earth, the one who made kingdoms tremble?

  • 11The pillars of the heavens tremble and are amazed at his rebuke.

  • Isa 24:18-19
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    18The one who runs away from the sound of the terror will fall into the pit; the one who climbs out of the pit, will be trapped by the snare. For the floodgates of the heavens are opened up and the foundations of the earth shake.

    19The earth is broken in pieces, the earth is ripped to shreds, the earth shakes violently.

  • 18But as a mountain falls away and crumbles, and as a rock will be removed from its place,

  • 5Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!

  • 8The earth heaved and shook; the foundations of the sky trembled. They heaved because he was angry.

  • 17But now you are preoccupied with the judgment due the wicked, judgment and justice take hold of you.

  • 12The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world.

  • 10when I prescribed its limits, and set in place its bolts and doors,

  • 18will you, with him, spread out the clouds, solid as a mirror of molten metal?

  • 3Is it good for you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?

  • 21Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told to you since the very beginning? Have you not understood from the time the earth’s foundations were made?

  • 3Man puts an end to the darkness; he searches the farthest recesses for the ore in the deepest darkness.

  • 24If a land has been given into the hand of a wicked man, he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he, then who is it?

  • 27The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him.

  • 9Its measure is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

  • 8Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?

  • 5He established the earth on its foundations; it will never be moved.

  • 18Your thunderous voice was heard in the wind; the lightning bolts lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.

  • 18Surely you put them in slippery places; you bring them down to ruin.

  • 1At this also my heart pounds and leaps from its place.

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    19In my zeal, in the fire of my fury, I declare that on that day there will be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.

    20The fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the wild beasts, all the things that creep on the ground, and all people who live on the face of the earth will shake at my presence. The mountains will topple, the cliffs will fall, and every wall will fall to the ground.

  • 15If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.

  • 27to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?

  • 13when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?

  • 15Will you keep to the old path that evil men have walked–

  • 7The Wicked Prosper“Why do the wicked go on living, grow old, even increase in power?