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Job 38:24
Job 38:24 is verse 24 of Job chapter 38, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?
King James Version
By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?
World English Bible
By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?
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Job 38:22–26 · Berean Standard Bible
22 Have you entered the storehouses of snow or observed the storehouses of hail,
23 which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of war and battle?
24 In which direction is the lightning dispersed, or the east wind scattered over the earth?
25 Who cuts a channel for the flood or clears a path for the thunderbolt,
26 to bring rain on a barren land, on a desert where no man lives,
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 38:12In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,
Job 38:13that it might spread to the ends of the earth and shake the wicked out of it?
Jonah 4:8As 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 to die than to live.”
Matthew 24:27For 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.