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
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?
World English Bible
By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?
Interlinear
Chalaq
References
Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 38:24
Verse Info
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?
Phrases
Names
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;