Parallel Verses
World English Bible
By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?
New American Standard Bible
Or the east wind scattered on the earth?
King James Version
By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?
Holman Bible
Where is the source of the east wind that spreads across the earth?
International Standard Version
Where is the lightning diffused or the east wind scattered around the earth?
A Conservative Version
By what way is the light divided, or the east wind scattered upon the earth?
American Standard Version
By what way is the light parted, Or the east wind scattered upon the earth?
Amplified
“Where is the way that the light is distributed,
Or the east wind scattered over the earth?
Bible in Basic English
Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?
Darby Translation
By what way is the light parted, and the east wind scattered upon the earth?
Julia Smith Translation
Where that way the light will divide, it will scatter the east wind upon the earth?
King James 2000
By what way is the light distributed, which scatters the east wind upon the earth?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Where then [is] the way [where] [the] light is distributed, [where] he scatters [the] east wind upon [the] earth?
Modern King James verseion
How is it, the way the light is distributed, and how does the east wind spread itself on the earth?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
By what way is the light parted, and the heat dealt out upon the earth?
NET Bible
In what direction is lightning dispersed, or the east winds scattered over the earth?
New Heart English Bible
By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?
The Emphasized Bible
Where then is the way the lightning is parted? The east wind spreadeth itself abroad over the earth.
Webster
By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?
Youngs Literal Translation
Where is this, the way light is apportioned? It scattereth an east wind over the earth.
Interlinear
Chalaq
References
Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 38:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Interrogates Job
23 which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war? 24 By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth? 25 Who has cut a channel for the flood water, or the path for the thunderstorm;
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Job 38:12-13
"Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place;
Jonah 4:8
It happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."
Matthew 24:27
For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.