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# Connecting Statement:
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This is the end of the rhetorical question that begins with the words "Have you given" in verse 12.
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# so that it might take hold ... shake the wicked out of it?
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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]])
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# take hold of the edges of the earth
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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]])
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# shake the wicked out of it
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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]])
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