Job 38:24

24. By what way, etc. What is the way that light divides itself? (Dillmann and Hitzig.) Which scattereth, etc. [ How ] does the east wind scatter itself over the earth? The east wind, for diffusiveness and destructiveness corresponding to the Eurus of the classics, is here used representatively. It was an east wind that was summoned to hurl the wicked man out of his place, (Job 27:21, on which see note,) and an east wind also which broke the ships of Tarshish. Psalms 48:7. The reason that light and the east wind are mentioned together may be that they both take their rise in the same quarter of the sky, or because of the extreme heat associated with each.