Job 38:24
Where [is] this, the way light is apportioned? It scatters an east wind over the earth.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?
In Context
23That I have kept back for a time of distress, || For a day of conflict and battle?
25Who has divided a conduit for the flood? And a way for the lightning of the voices?
Cross References
Exodus 14:21And Moses stretches out his hand toward the sea, and YHWH causes the sea to go on by a strong east wind all the night, and makes the sea become dry ground, and the waters are cleaved,
Jonah 4:8And it comes to pass, about the rising of the sun, that God appoints a cutting east wind, and the sun strikes on the head of Jonah, and he wraps himself up, and asks for his soul to die, and says, “Better [is] my death than my life.”
Matthew Henry on Job 38:13-25
Works of God. ( b. c. 1520.) 12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; 13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it? 14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a garment. 15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high arm shall be broken. 16 Hast thou entered into the springs of the sea? or hast thou walked in the search of the depth? 17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee?… Read the whole commentary →