This is the end of the rhetorical question that begins with the words "Have you given" in verse 12.
# so that it might take hold ... shake the wicked out of it?
This is the end of the rhetorical question that begins with the words "Have you given" in verse 12. This question expects a negative answer. It can be translated as a statement. "You have never given ... so that it might take hold ... shaken the wicked out of it." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
The light of dawn is spoken of as if it seizes the horizons of the earth. Alternate translation: "grasp the ends of the earth" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]])
The daylight is pictured as causing wicked people to leave like shaking something to remove unwanted things. Alternate translation: "shake wicked people out of the earth" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])