Job 38:24
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By what way is the light spread, and heat divided upon the earth?

Job 38:12,13 Didst thou since thy birth command the morning, and shew the dawning of the day its place? . . .

Jonah 4:8 But God prepared a worm, when the morning arose on the following day: and it struck the ivy and it withered.

Matthew 24:27 For as lightning cometh out of the east and appeareth even into the west: so shall also the cowling of the Son of man be.

Context
God Challenges Job
23Which I have prepared for the time of the enemy, against the day of battle and war? 24By what way is the light spread, and heat divided upon the earth?25Who gave a course to violent showers, or a way for noisy thunder:…
Cross References
Job 26:10
He hath set bounds about the waters, till light and darkness come to an end.

Job 38:23
Which I have prepared for the time of the enemy, against the day of battle and war?

Job 38:25
Who gave a course to violent showers, or a way for noisy thunder:

Lexicon
In which
אֵי־ (’ê-)
Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 335: Where?, how?

direction
הַ֭דֶּרֶךְ (had·de·reḵ)
Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action

is the lightning
א֑וֹר (’ō·wr)
Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 216: Illumination, luminary

dispersed,
יֵחָ֣לֶק (yê·ḥā·leq)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2505: To be smooth, to apportion, separate

or the east wind
קָדִ֣ים (qā·ḏîm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6921: The fore, front part, the East

scattered
יָפֵ֖ץ (yā·p̄êṣ)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect Jussive - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6327: To be dispersed or scattered

over
עֲלֵי־ (‘ă·lê-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the earth?
אָֽרֶץ׃ (’ā·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land


Additional Translations
In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?By what way is the light parted, which scatters the east wind on the earth?

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

And whence proceeds the frost? or whence is the south wind dispersed over the whole world under heaven?

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

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

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

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

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