That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
The line belongs to God's sublime poetic address to Job about the ordering of creation, displaying divine works beyond human knowledge. It pictures taking hold of the farthest limits of the earth to shake the wicked out of it, something God can do but human beings cannot command or control. It points to divine works and mysteries revealed in nature that lie beyond human knowledge, which even persons of the greatest intellect and the most profound scholarship cannot understand or answer.
The question was not put to be answered but to call attention to the deep mysteries of God and to teach that human wisdom is limited. In the surroundings of daily life there are many things beyond the comprehension of finite beings. Such mysteries in both divine revelation and nature are given to command faith, showing God is to be acknowledged as much from what He does not reveal of Himself as from what is open to limited comprehension, and that beyond all searching, inquiring, and learning there remains an infinity beyond.
The line belongs to God's sublime poetic address to Job about the ordering of creation, displaying divine works beyond human knowledge. It pictures taking hold of the farthest limits of the earth to shake the wicked out of it, something God can do but human beings cannot command or control. It points to divine works and mysteries revealed in nature that lie beyond human knowledge, which even persons of the greatest intellect and the most profound scholarship cannot understand or answer.
The question was not put to be answered but to call attention to the deep mysteries of God and to teach that human wisdom is limited. In the surroundings of daily life there are many things beyond the comprehension of finite beings. Such mysteries in both divine revelation and nature are given to command faith, showing God is to be acknowledged as much from what He does not reveal of Himself as from what is open to limited comprehension, and that beyond all searching, inquiring, and learning there remains an infinity beyond.