Job 30:11
For he hath opened his quiver, and hath afflicted me, and hath put a bridle into my mouth.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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, and flee far from me, and are not afraid to spit in my face.
Cross References
Ruth 1:21I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me back empty. Why then do you call me Noemi, whom the Lord hath humbled and the Almighty hath afflicted?
Job 12:18He looseth the belt of kings, and girdeth their loins with a cord.
Psalms 32:9Do not become like the horse and the mule, who have no understanding. With bit and bridle bind fast their jaws, who come not near unto thee.
Matthew 26:67Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him: and others struck his face with the palms of their hands,
James 1:26And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his own 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 →