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# Connecting Statement:
Yahweh continues to challenge Job.
# General Information:
Yahweh uses a question to emphasize that he created the light of day and Job did not. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
# Have you ... shake the wicked out of it?
This question expects a negative answer. It can be translated as a statement. AT: "You have never ... shaken the wicked out of it." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
# given orders to the morning
Yahweh describes the morning as being able to receive orders and know things like a person. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]])
# caused the dawn to know its place
"caused the dawn to know where it belongs"
# dawn
the daylight that appears in the morning sky before the sun rises
# take hold of the edges of the earth
The light of dawn is spoken of as if it seizes the horizons of the earth. AT: "grasp the ends of the earth" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]])
# shake the wicked out of it
The daylight is pictured as causing wicked people to leave like shaking something to remove unwanted things. AT: "shake wicked people out of the earth" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
# translationWords
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/evil]]