Job 28:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He keeps back the streams from flowing, and makes the secret things come out into the light.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 26:8 : 8 By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.
  • Isa 37:25 : 25 I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.
  • Isa 44:27 : 27 Who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will make your rivers dry:
  • Isa 45:2-3 : 2 I will go before you, and make the rough places level: the doors of brass will be broken, and the iron rods cut in two: 3 And I will give you the stores of the dark, and the wealth of secret places, so that you may be certain that I am the Lord, who gave you your name, even the God of Israel.
  • 1 Cor 4:5 : 5 For this reason let there be no judging before the time, till the Lord comes, who will make clear the secret things of the dark, and the designs of the heart; and then will every man have his praise from God.

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  • Job 28:9-10
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    9 Man puts out his hand on the hard rock, overturning mountains by the roots.

    10 He makes deep ways, cut through the rock, and his eye sees everything of value.

  • Job 12:14-15
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    14 Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.

    15 Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

  • Job 28:3-4
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    3 Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.

    4 He makes a deep mine far away from those living in the light of day; when they go about on the earth, they have no knowledge of those who are under them, who are hanging far from men, twisting from side to side on a cord.

  • Job 26:8-10
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    8 By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.

    9 By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.

    10 By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.

  • 22 Uncovering deep things out of the dark, and making the deep shade bright;

  • Job 38:24-26
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    24 Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?

    25 By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;

    26 Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;

  • 11 Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

  • 30 See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it.

  • 12 But where may wisdom be seen? and where is the resting-place of knowledge?

  • Job 28:25-27
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    25 When he made a weight for the wind, measuring out the waters;

    26 When he made a law for the rain, and a way for the thunder-flames;

    27 Then he saw it, and put it on record; he gave it its fixed form, searching it out completely.

  • 32 He takes the light in his hands, sending it against the mark.

  • 27 For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,

  • 10 If he goes on his way, shutting a man up and putting him to death, who may make him go back from his purpose?

  • Prov 8:28-29
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    28 When he made strong the skies overhead: when the fountains of the deep were fixed:

    29 When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:

  • 16 At the sound of his voice there is a massing of the waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain and sends out the wind from his store-houses.

  • 7 He makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes thunder-flames for the rain; he sends out the winds from his store-houses.

  • Job 37:11-12
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    11 The thick cloud is weighted with thunder-flame, and the cloud sends out its light;

    12 And it goes this way and that, round about, turning itself by his guiding, to do whatever he gives orders to be done, on the face of his world of men,

  • 13 At the sound of his voice there is a massing of waters in the heavens, and he makes the mists go up from the ends of the earth; he makes the thunder-flames for the rain, and sends out the wind from his store-houses.

  • 23 Will he make an agreement with you, so that you may take him as a servant for ever?

  • 15 You made valleys for fountains and springs; you made the ever-flowing rivers dry.

  • 7 He makes the waters of the sea come together in a mass; he keeps the deep seas in store-houses.

  • 30 The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.

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    9 You made a limit over which they might not go, so that the earth would never again be covered by them.

    10 You sent the springs into the valleys; they are flowing between the hills.

  • 33 He makes rivers into waste places, and springs of water into a dry land;

  • 34 Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?

  • 22 He is the unveiler of deep and secret things: he has knowledge of what is in the dark, and the light has its living-place with him.

  • 20 By his knowledge the deep was parted, and dew came dropping from the skies.

  • 16 He made streams come out of the rock; and waters came flowing down like rivers.

  • Job 38:15-16
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    15 And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.

    16 Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

  • 3 He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth.

  • 37 By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth,

  • 10 Who gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields:

  • 20 Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.

  • 8 Who made the rock into a water-spring, and the hard stone into a fountain.

  • 18 At the outgoing of his word, the ice is turned to water; when he sends out his wind, there is a flowing of waters.

  • 12 By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.