Quotes about Restraint
Because God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.
- Job 30:11
They tear up my path; they profit from my destruction, with no one to restrain them.
- Job 30:13
because I greatly feared the crowds and the contempt of the clans terrified me, so that I kept silent and would not go outside—
- Job 31:34
Behold, my belly is like unvented wine; it is about to burst like a new wineskin.
- Job 32:19
He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’
- Job 33:11
And if men are bound with chains, caught in cords of affliction,
- Job 36:8
and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?
- Job 38:11
Refrain from anger and abandon wrath; do not fret—it can only bring harm.
- Psalm 37:8
For the choirmaster. For Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, “I will watch my ways so that I will not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle as long as the wicked are present.”
- Psalm 39:1
And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.
- Psalm 78:38
You set a boundary they cannot cross, that they may never again cover the earth.
- Psalm 104:9
But Phinehas stood and intervened, and the plague was restrained.
- Psalm 106:30