Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
None can tell whence or where, seeing it, etc.
Fowls. The gift of divination was assigned by the pagan especially to birds. Their rapid flight heavenwards and keen sight originated the superstition. Job may allude to it, Not even the boasted divination of birds has an insight into it (Ecclesiastes 10:20). But it may merely mean, as Job 28:7, it escapes the eye of even the most keen-sighted bird.