Job 38:24
New International Version
What is the way to the place where the lightning is dispersed, or the place where the east winds are scattered over the earth?

New Living Translation
Where is the path to the source of light? Where is the home of the east wind?

English Standard Version
What is the way to the place where the light is distributed, or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?

Berean Standard Bible
In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?

King James Bible
By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?

New King James Version
By what way is light diffused, Or the east wind scattered over the earth?

New American Standard Bible
“Where is the way that the light is divided, And the east wind scattered on the earth?

NASB 1995
“Where is the way that the light is divided, Or the east wind scattered on the earth?

NASB 1977
“Where is the way that the light is divided, Or the east wind scattered on the earth?

Legacy Standard Bible
Where is the way that the light is divided, Or the east wind scattered on the earth?

Amplified Bible
“Where is the way that the light is distributed, Or the east wind scattered over the earth?

Christian Standard Bible
What road leads to the place where light is dispersed? Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the earth?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
What road leads to the place where light is dispersed? Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the earth?

American Standard Version
By what way is the light parted, Or the east wind scattered upon the earth?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Or by which path is the light divided and the wind goes out on the Earth?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And whence proceeds the frost? or whence is the south wind dispersed over the whole world under heaven?

Contemporary English Version
From where does lightning leap, or the east wind blow?

Douay-Rheims Bible
By what way is the light spread, and heat divided upon the earth?

English Revised Version
By what way is the light parted, or the east wind scattered upon the earth?

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Which is the way to the place where light is scattered and the east wind is spread across the earth?

Good News Translation
Have you been to the place where the sun comes up, or the place from which the east wind blows?

International Standard Version
Where is the lightning diffused or the east wind scattered around the earth?

JPS Tanakh 1917
By what way is the light parted, Or the east wind scattered upon the earth?

Literal Standard Version
Where [is] this, the way light is apportioned? It scatters an east wind over the earth.

Majority Standard Bible
In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?

New American Bible
What is the way to the parting of the winds, where the east wind spreads over the earth?

NET Bible
In what direction is lightning dispersed, or the east winds scattered over the earth?

New Revised Standard Version
What is the way to the place where the light is distributed, or where the east wind is scattered upon the earth?

New Heart English Bible
By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?

Webster's Bible Translation
By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?

World English Bible
By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?

Young's Literal Translation
Where is this, the way light is apportioned? It scattereth an east wind over the earth.

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Context
God Challenges Job
23which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle? 24In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth? 25Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,…

Cross References
Job 26:10
He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.

Job 38:23
which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?

Job 38:25
Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,


Treasury of Scripture

By what way is the light parted, which scatters the east wind on the earth?

Job 38:12,13
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; …

Jonah 4:8
And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

Matthew 24:27
For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

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Job 38
1. God challenges Job to answer
4. God, by his mighty works, convinces Job of ignorance
31. and weakness














(24) By what way is the light parted?--i.e., distributed in turn to all the inhabitants of the earth.

The east wind.--As naturally suggested by the origin of light and the mention of it.

Verse 24. - By what way is the light parted? or, distributed, so as to be enjoyed by all the inhabitants of the earth (Stanley Loathes). Which scattereth, etc.; rather, or by what way is the east wind scattered over the earth? (see the Revised Version) Job is asked to explain God's modus operandi in nature, which, of course, he cannot do. Hence his answer in Job 40:5.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
In which
אֵי־ (’ê-)
Interrogative
Strong's 335: Where?, how?

direction
הַ֭דֶּרֶךְ (had·de·reḵ)
Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action

is the lightning
א֑וֹר (’ō·wr)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 216: Illumination, luminary

dispersed,
יֵחָ֣לֶק (yê·ḥā·leq)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2505: To be smooth, to apportion, separate

or the east wind
קָדִ֣ים (qā·ḏîm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6921: The fore, front part, the East

scattered
יָפֵ֖ץ (yā·p̄êṣ)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect Jussive - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6327: To be dispersed or scattered

over
עֲלֵי־ (‘ă·lê-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the earth?
אָֽרֶץ׃ (’ā·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land


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