Job 30:11
For he has loosed his cord, and afflicted me. And they have cast off the bridle before me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
In Context
10They abhor me. They stand aloof from me, and do not spare to spit in my face.
Cross References
Ruth 1:21I went out full, and LORD has brought me home again empty. Why do ye call me Naomi, seeing LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me?
Job 12:18He loosens the bond of kings, and he binds their loins with a belt.
Psalms 32:9Become ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding, whose trappings must be bit and bridle to hold them in, [else] they will not come near to thee.
Matthew 26:67Then they spat in his face and struck him with a fist. And some slapped him,
James 1:26If any man among you seems to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is futile.
Matthew Henry on Job 30:2-15
Job's Humbled Condition. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. 2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? 3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. 4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. 5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a… Read the whole commentary →