Job 9:6

9:6 he who shakes the earth out of its place ¹ 

so that its pillars tremble; ² 

Job 11:9

11:9 Its measure is longer than the earth,

and broader than the sea.

Job 18:10

18:10 A rope is hidden for him ³  on the ground

and a trap for him ⁴  lies on the path.

Job 20:27

20:27 The heavens reveal his iniquity;

the earth rises up against him.

Job 35:11

35:11 who teaches us ⁵  more than ⁶  the wild animals of the earth,

and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’

Job 37:17

37:17 You, whose garments are hot

when the earth is still because of the south wind,

Job 38:13

38:13 that it might seize the corners of the earth, ⁷ 

and shake the wicked out of it?

[9:6]  ¹ sn Shakes the earth out of its place probably refers to earthquakes, although some commentators protest against this in view of the idea of the pillars. In the ancient world the poetical view of the earth is that it was a structure on pillars, with water around it and under it. In an earthquake the pillars were shaken, and the earth moved.

[9:6]  ² tn The verb הִתְפַלָּצ (hitfallats) is found only here, but the root seems clearly to mean “to be tossed; to be thrown about,” and so in the Hitpael “quiver; shake; tremble.” One of the three nouns from this root is פַּלָּצוּת (pallatsut), the “shudder” that comes with terror (see Job 21:6; Isa 21:4; Ezek 7:18; and Ps 55:6).

[18:10]  ³ tn Heb “his rope.” The suffix must be a genitive expressing that the trap was for him, to trap him, and so an objective genitive.

[18:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “his trap.” The pronominal suffix is objective genitive here as well.

[35:11]  ⁵ tn The form in the text, the Piel participle from אָלַף (’alaf, “teach”) is written in a contracted form; the full form is מְאַלְּפֵנוּ (mÿ’allÿfenu).

[35:11]  ⁶ tn Some would render this “teaches us by the beasts.” But Elihu is stressing the unique privilege humans have.

[38:13]  ⁷ 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.