He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
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Gill's Exposition
He bindeth the floods from overflowing,.... As the miner finds ways and means of cutting through rocks, and draining and carrying off the waters in his mine; so he makes use of other methods of…
Barnes' Notes
He bindeth the floods from overflowing - Margin, Weeping The Hebrew also is “from weeping” מבכי mı̂bekı̂y; referring to the water which trickles down the shaft of the mine. The idea is, that even the…
Here Job shows, 1. What a great way the wit of man may go in diving into the depths of nature and seizing the riches of it, what a great deal of knowledge and wealth men may, by their ingenious and…
Cambridge Bible
he bindeth the floods from overflowing Rather, he bindeth up the streams that they drip not, lit. that they weep not.The reference is to the use of lime or clay to prevent water percolating into the…
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