“Because He hath opened His quiver and afflicted me. And put a bridle into my mouth. What is denoted by 'the quiver' of God, but secret counsel? Now the Lord casts the arrow from the quiver, when from His secret counsel He sends forth an open sentence. For that any man is scourged, we know, but for what cause the scour…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XX
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11Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
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In context
9And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
10They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
— Job 30:11 —
12Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
13They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.