Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Where is this, the way light is apportioned? It scattereth an east wind over the earth.

New American Standard Bible

“Where is the way that the light is divided,
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

What road leads to the place where light is dispersed?
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?

World English Bible

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
By what
אי 
'ay 
Usage: 34

way
דּרך 
Derek 
Usage: 704

is the light
אור 
'owr 
Usage: 122

the east wind
קדם קדים 
Qadiym 
Usage: 69

References

Smith

Context Readings

Yahweh Interrogates Job

23 That I have kept back for a time of distress, For a day of conflict and battle. 24 Where is this, the way light is apportioned? It scattereth an east wind over the earth. 25 Who hath divided for the flood a conduit? And a way for the lightning of the voices?

Cross References

Job 38:12-13

Hast thou commanded morning since thy days? Causest thou the dawn to know its place?

Jonah 4:8

And it cometh to pass, about the rising of the sun, that God appointeth a cutting east wind, and the sun smiteth on the head of Jonah, and he wrappeth himself up, and asketh his soul to die, and saith, 'Better is my death than my life.'

Matthew 24:27

for as the lightning doth come forth from the east, and doth appear unto the west, so shall be also the presence of the Son of Man;

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