Job 30:11
For he has made loose the cord of my bow, and put me to shame; he has sent down my flag to the earth before me.
Bible in Basic English
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
10I am disgusting to them; they keep away from me, and put marks of shame on me.
Cross References
Ruth 1:21I went out full, and the Lord has sent me back again with nothing; why do you give me the name Naomi, seeing that the Lord has given witness against me, and the Ruler of all has sent sorrow on me?
Job 12:18He undoes the chains of kings, and puts his band on them;
Psalms 32:9Do not be like the horse or the ass, without sense; ...
Matthew 26:67Then they put shame on him, and were cruel to him: and some gave him blows, saying,
James 1:26If a man seems to have religion and has no control over his tongue but lets himself be tricked by what is false, this man's religion is of no value.
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 →