Job 38:24

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 38:12-13 : 12 "Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place; 13 that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?
  • Jonah 4:8 : 8 It happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah's head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, "It is better for me to die than to live."
  • Matt 24:27 : 27 For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

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  • Job 38:18-20
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    18Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you know it all.

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  • Job 38:22-23
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    22Have you entered the treasuries of the snow, or have you seen the treasures of the hail,

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  • Job 37:21-22
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    21Now men don't see the light which is bright in the skies, but the wind passes, and clears them.

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    15Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

    16Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

    17You whose clothing is warm, when the earth is still by reason of the south wind?

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  • Job 37:9-11
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    9Out of its room comes the storm, and cold out of the north.

    10By the breath of God, ice is given, and the breadth of the waters is frozen.

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    8In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.

  • Job 38:33-38
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    33Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth?

    34"Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?

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    36Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

    37Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,

    38when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?

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    32He covers his hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark.

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    7who causes the clouds to rise from the ends of the earth; who makes lightnings with the rain; who brings forth the wind out of his treasuries;

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    29Yes, can any understand the spreading of the clouds, and the thunderings of his pavilion?

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  • Job 38:12-13
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    12"Have you commanded the morning in your days, and caused the dawn to know its place;

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  • Jer 51:16
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    16when he utters his voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and he causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; he makes lightning for the rain, and brings forth the wind out of his treasuries.

  • Job 28:25-26
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    25He establishes the force of the wind. Yes, he measures out the waters by measure.

    26When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder;

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    21The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.

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    28Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?

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    3He sends it forth under the whole sky, and his lightning to the ends of the earth.

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    14Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?"

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    23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

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    8"Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb,

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    1Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind,

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  • Job 38:15-16
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    15From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.

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