Job 38:24 BSB — MannaFest

Job 38:24

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

2 voices

Gregory the Dialogist

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIX (604)

By what way is the light scattered? The heat is divided over the earth. For He in truth is the way, Who says, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. The light is, therefore, scattered by this way, because all the Gentile world is enlightened by His presence. But He rightly said, Is scattered, because the light of preaching was not contracted or confined, but shone forth with its brightness far and wide by the voices of the Apostles.

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The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

By what way is the light parted - Who can accurately describe the cause and operation of a thunder cloud, the cause, nature, and mode of operation of the lightning itself? Is it a simple element or compound substance? What is its velocity? and why not conductible by every kind of substance, as it is known to exist in all, and, indeed, to be diffused through every portion of nature? How is it parted? How does it take its zigzag form? this is the curious, indescribable, and unknown parting. Are all the causes of positive and negative electricity found out?

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

"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

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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).

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אֵי־	'ei-	where?	H335 →
זֶ֣ה	zeh	this	H2088 →
הַ֭דֶּרֶךְ	Ha.de.rekh	[is] the way	H1870 →
יֵחָ֣לֶק	ye.Cha.lek	[where] it is divided	H2505 →
א֑וֹר	'or	light	H216 →
יָפֵ֖ץ	ya.Fetz	[where] it scatters	H6327 →
קָדִ֣ים	ka.Dim	[the] east wind	H6921 →
עֲלֵי־	'a.lei-	over	H5921 →
אָֽרֶץ׃	'A.retz	[the] earth	H776 →

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

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 24:27
For just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
leads to
- Luke 17:24–37
  For just as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so will be the Son of Man in His day.
- Zechariah 9:14
  Then the LORD will appear over them, and His arrow will go forth like lightning. The Lord GOD will sound the ram’s horn and advance in the whirlwinds of the south.
- Isaiah 30:30
  And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.
- Job 37:3
  He unleashes His lightning beneath the whole sky and sends it to the ends of the earth.
- James 5:8
  You, too, be patient and strengthen your hearts, because the Lord’s coming is near.
Through
Jonah 4:8
As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me…
leads to
- Psalms 121:6
  The sun will not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.
- Jonah 4:3
  And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
- Ezekiel 19:12
  But it was uprooted in fury, cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were stripped off and they withered; the fire consumed them.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Job

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Job