Job 38:13

13. Ends of the earth See note on Job 37:3. Daylight, as it chases evil-doers back to their hiding places, seems “to take hold of the carpet of the earth, as it were, by the edges,” and shake from it the wicked. The dawn shines forth under the figure of “a watchman, a messenger of the prince of heaven sent to chase away bands of robbers,” with their deeds of darkness. In ancient times justice was administered in the early morning, (Jeremiah 21:12,) as Drusius has fully shown. There is an unmistakable allusion to Job’s complaint, (Job 24:16-17.) The constant return of the light of the day “thus becomes an image of the perpetual flight and destruction of wicked men before God.” Ewald, 297.