VERSE STUDY • KJV

Job 38:24

By what way is the light parted, [which] scattereth the east wind upon the earth?

Read it in 5 translations

By what way is the light parted, [which] scattereth the east wind upon the earth?

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

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

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

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

21 Knowest thou [it], because thou wast then born? or [because] the number of thy days [is] great?

22 Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,

23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

24 By what way is the light parted, [which] scattereth the east wind upon the earth?

25 Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;

26 To cause it to rain on the earth, [where] no man [is; on] the wilderness, wherein [there is] no man;

27 To satisfy the desolate and waste [ground]; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?

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HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION

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