Bible verse
He stops up the sources of the streams to bring what is hidden to light.
Job 28:11 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 28.
7 No bird of prey knows that path; no falcon’s eye has seen it.
8 Proud beasts have never trodden it; no lion has ever prowled over it.
9 The miner strikes the flint; he overturns mountains at their base.
10 He hews out channels in the rocks, and his eyes spot every treasure.
11 He stops up the sources of the streams to bring what is hidden to light.
12 But where can wisdom be found, and where does understanding dwell?
13 No man can know its value, nor is it found in the land of the living.
14 The ocean depths say, ‘It is not in me,’ while the sea declares, ‘It is not with me.’
15 It cannot be bought with gold, nor can its price be weighed out in silver.
KJV
He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and [the thing that is] hid bringeth he forth to light.
ASV
He bindeth the streams that they trickle not; And the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
ERV
He bindeth the streams that they trickle not; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.
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