Job 30:11
Because His cord He loosed and afflicteth me, And the bridle from before me, They have cast away.
Young's Literal 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 have abominated me, They have kept far from me, And from before me have not spared to spit.
Cross References
Ruth 1:21I went out full, and empty hath Jehovah brought me back, why do ye call me Naomi, and Jehovah hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath done evil to me?'
Job 12:18The bands of kings He hath opened, And He bindeth a girdle on their loins.
Psalms 32:9Be ye not as a horse — as a mule, Without understanding, With bridle and bit, its ornaments, to curb, Not to come near unto thee.
Matthew 26:67Then did they spit in his face and buffet him, and others did slap,
James 1:26If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain [is] the religion;
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 →