Job 38:13

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

and shake the wicked out of it?

Job 41:30

41:30 Its underparts ²  are the sharp points of potsherds,

it leaves its mark in the mud

like a threshing sledge. 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.

[41:30]  ² tn Heb “under him.”

[41:30]  ³ tn Here only the word “sharp” is present, but in passages like Isa 41:15 it is joined with “threshing sledge.” Here and in Amos 1:3 and Isa 28:27 the word stands alone, but represents the “sledge.”