unfoldingWord_en_tn/job/38/12.md

# 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]]