Job 30:11
God has made my bowstring loose and humbled me.
Free Bible 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 despise and shun me; they don't hesitate to spit in my face.
Cross References
Ruth 1:21I left here full, but the Lord has brought me home empty. Why call me Naomi when the Lord has condemned me, when the Almighty has brought disaster on me?”
Job 12:18He removes the chains of office from kings and makes them wear loincloths.
Psalms 32:9You mustn't be like a horse or a mule that doesn't know which way to go without a bit or a bridle. Otherwise they can't be controlled.”
Matthew 26:67Then they spat in his face and beat him. Some of them slapped him with their hands,
James 1:26If you think you're religious, but don't control what you say, you deceive yourself—your religion is pointless.
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 →