Bible in Basic English
"He keeps back the streams from flowing, and makes the secret things come out into the light."
— Job 28:11, Bible in Basic English
“He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.”
“He bindeth the streams that they trickle not; And the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light. ”
“He binds the streams that they don't trickle. The thing that is hidden he brings forth to light.”
“He has searched the sources of the rivers and what was hidden he has brought into the light.”
The great beasts have not gone over it, and the cruel lion has not taken that way.
Man puts out his hand on the hard rock, overturning mountains by the roots.
He makes deep ways, cut through the rock, and his eye sees everything of value.
He keeps back the streams from flowing, and makes the secret things come out into the light.
But where may wisdom be seen? and where is the resting-place of knowledge?
Man has not seen the way to it, and it is not in the land of the living.
The deep waters say, It is not in me: and the sea says, It is not with me.