Job 30:11
For he has opened his quiver and has afflicted me, and he has placed a bridle in my mouth.
Catholic Public Domain 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 loathe me, and so they flee far from me, and they are not reluctant to spit in my face.
Cross References
Ruth 1:21I went out full and the Lord led me back empty. So then, why call me Naomi, whom the Lord has humbled and the Almighty has afflicted?”
Job 12:18He removes the belt of kings and encircles their waist with a rope.
Psalms 32:9For he spoke, and they became. He commanded, and they were created.
Matthew 26:67Then they spit in his face, and they struck him with fists. And others struck his face with the palms of their hands,
James 1:26But if anyone considers himself to be religious, but he does not restrain his tongue, but instead seduces his own heart: such a one’s religion is vanity.
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 →