The LORD Challenges Job
Job 38:24
In 11 translations
- BSB
- In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?
- KJV
- By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?
- WEB
- By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?
- ASV
- By what way is the light parted, Or the east wind scattered upon the earth?
- LSV
- Where [is] this, the way light is apportioned? It scatters an east wind over the earth.
- YLT
- Where [is] this, the way light is apportioned? It scattereth an east wind over the earth.
- DBY
- By what way is the light parted, [and] the east wind scattered upon the earth?
- DRC
- By what way is the light spread, and heat divided upon the earth?
- GNV
- By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the East winde vpon the earth?
- JPS
- By what way is the light parted, or the east wind scattered upon the earth?
- LXXE
- And whence proceeds the frost? or whence is the south wind dispersed over the whole world under heaven?
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- אֵי־זֶ֣ה הַ֭דֶּרֶךְ יֵחָ֣לֶק א֑וֹר יָפֵ֖ץ קָדִ֣ים עֲלֵי־אָֽרֶץ׃
- LXX-Br
- Πόθεν δὲ ἐκπορεύεται πάχνη, ἢ διασκεδάννυται Νότος εἰς τὴν ὑπʼ οὐρανόν;
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
WindsCondescension of GodReadings, SelectWindLightBaruch, Book ofMeteorology and Celestial PhenomenaJob, Book ofBlessingGod
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Job 38:12–13In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place, that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?
- Matthew 24:27For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
- Jonah 4:8As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
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