Job 28:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.

Floods. 'He restrains the streams from weeping' (margin); a poetical expression for the trickling subterranean rills which impede him: answering to the first clause of Job 28:10; so also the two latter clauses in each verse correspond.

Job 28:11

11 He bindeth the floods from overflowing;e and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.