Job 12:15

“Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up, etc.] Or “lays a restraint in” or “on the waters” f519; either in the ocean, as he did at the creation, when he gathered the waters that were upon the face of the earth into one place, and restrained them there, even in the decreed place he broke up for them, called the sea, and set bars and doors to keep them within bounds, whereby the places they left became dry and the dry land appeared called earth; and so at the time of the flood, when the waters which covered the earth and drowned the world were called off again, the face of it was dry, and so it remains, the waters of the great ocean being restrained from overflowing it; and also…”

“Probably alluding to the flood.”

“He withholdeth the waters - From the clouds and springs. He has control over the rains and the fountains; and when these are withheld, rivers and lakes become dry. The Syriac renders this, - “if he rebuke the waters,” supposing that there might perhaps be an allusion to the drying up of the Red Sea, or the formation of a passage for the Israelites. But it is remarkable that in the argument here there is no allusion to any historical fact, not to the flood, or to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, or to the passage through the Red Sea, though these occurrences would have furnished so appropriate illustrations of the points under discussion. Is it to be inferred that Job had never heard of…”

“The waters - Which are reserved its the clouds, that they may not fall upon the earth. They - The waters upon the earth, springs, and brooks, and rivers. As at the time of the general deluge, to which here is a manifest allusion. Job 12:16”

“Behold: Job 12:10; Gen 8:1, Gen 8:2; Kg1 8:35, Kg1 8:36, Kg1 17:1; Jer 14:22; Nah 1:4; Luk 4:25; Jam 5:17, Jam 5:18; Rev 11:6 he sendeth: Gen 6:13, Gen 6:17, Gen 7:11, Gen 7:23; Psa 104:7-9; Amo 5:8 Job 12:16”