Job 38:24 KJV — MannaFest

Job 38:24

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

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

YLT

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

DBT

By what way is the light parted, [and] the east wind scattered upon the earth?

About this book

Old Testament

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Job — The canonical wisdom-literature interrogation of undeserved suffering. A prose frame enclosing three cycles of dialogue, a late Elihu interrupt, and a whirlwind theophany that does not answer the question — it relativizes it.

Author: Anonymous. Talmudic tradition names Moses (Bava Batra 14b); internal features (patriarchal setting, no Mosaic Law reference, Job sacrificing as family head, *qesitah* currency of Gen 33:19) suggest patriarchal-era composition or at least tradition-origin.
Date: Traditional: patriarchal period, c. 2000–1800 BC. Critical proposals scatter across pre-exilic to post-exilic. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer takes the position.

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Cross-references

5 verses on the floor

Job 38:12–13
Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;
Jonah 4:8
And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
Matthew 24:27
For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Job 28:7
There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen:
Psalms 147:8
Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices3

On this verse

Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

"What is the way (to the place wherein) light dwelleth?" The origin of light and darkness. In Ge 1:3-5, 14-18, "light" is created distinct from, and previous to, light-emitting bodies, the luminaries of heaven.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Hence we read of the wings of the morning ( Ps. cxxxix. 9 ), on which the light is conveyed to the uttermost parts of the sea, and scattered like an east wind upon the earth. It is a marvellous change that passes over us every morning by the return of the light and every evening by the return of the darkness; but we expect them, and so they are no surprise nor uneasiness to us.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Light travels from the sun to the earth, ninety millions of miles, in eight minutes. which scattereth--rather, "And by what way the east wind (personified) spreads (scattereth) itself." The light and east wind are associated together, as both come from one quarter, and often arise together (Jon 4:8).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Word trails from this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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