Job 30:11
For he hath loosed my cord and afflicted me; so they cast off the bridle before me.
Darby Translation
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, yea, they spare not to spit in my face.
Cross References
Ruth 1:21I went out full, and Jehovah has brought me home again empty. Why do ye call me Naomi, seeing Jehovah has brought me low, and the Almighty has afflicted me?
Job 12:18He weakeneth the government of kings, and bindeth their loins with a fetter;
Psalms 32:9Be ye not as a horse, as a mule, which have no understanding: whose trappings must be bit and bridle, for restraint, or they will not come unto thee.
Matthew 26:67Then they spit in his face, and buffeted him, and some struck him with the palms of their hand,
James 1:26If any one think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is vain.
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 →