Job 38:13

38:13 that it might seize the corners of the earth, ¹ 

and shake the wicked out of it?

Job 28:5

28:5 The earth, from which food comes,

is overturned below as though by fire; ² 

Job 31:17

31:17 If I ate my morsel of bread myself,

and did not share any of it with orphans ³  –

[38:13]  ¹ sn The poetic image is that darkness or night is like a blanket that covers the earth, and at dawn it is taken by the edges and shaken out. Since the wicked function under the cover of night, they are included in the shaking when the dawn comes up.

[28:5]  ² sn The verse has been properly understood, on the whole, as comparing the earth above and all its produce with the upheaval down below.

[31:17]  ³ tn Heb “and an orphan did not eat from it.”