Job 30:11

For he has opened his quiver and afflicted me: 1 They also have cast off the restraint of my presence. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

10And they stood aloof and abhorred me, 1 And spared not to spit in my face. 1

12They have risen up against me on the right hand of their offspring; 1 They have stretched out their foot, and directed against me the ways of their destruction. 1

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Cross References

Ruth 1:21I went out full, and the Lord has brought me back empty: and why call ye me Naomi, whereas the Lord has humbled me, and the Mighty One has afflicted me?

Job 12:18He seats kings upon thrones, 1 And girds their loins with a girdle. 1

Psalms 32:9For he spoke, and they were made; 1 He commanded, and they were created. 1

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 →

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