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Yahweh continues to challenge Job.
Have you ever...be shaken out of it
Yahweh uses this question to emphasize that only he has power over the morning and Job does not. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion)
since your own days began
This phrase means "since you were born" or "on any of the days that you have lived."
given orders to the morning
Yahweh describes the morning as though it were a person who could receive orders. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification)
caused the morning dawn to know its place in the scheme of things
"let the dawn know where it belongs" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification)
dawn
the light that appears in the morning before the sun rises
might take hold of the sides of the earth
Yahweh describes dawn as a person holding the horizons of the earth like the edges of a rug. Dawn looks like it holds the sides of the earth because its light first appears on the horizons. AT: "would appear on the horizons of the earth." (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
so that it
The word "it" refers to the dawn.
so that the wicked might be shaken out of it
"and shake the wicked out of the earth." The light of the dawn makes wicked people go away like shaking a rug gets the dirt out. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)