Job 30:10
I am disgusting to them; they keep away from me, and put marks of shame on me.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
In Context
9And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.
Cross References
Numbers 12:14And the Lord said to Moses, If her father had put a mark of shame on her, would she not be shamed for seven days? Let her be shut up outside the tent-circle for seven days, and after that she may come in again.
Job 17:6He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.
Job 19:19All the men of my circle keep away from me; and those dear to me are turned against me.
Psalms 88:8\88:7\The weight of your wrath is crushing me, all your waves have overcome me. (Selah.)
Isaiah 50:6I was offering my back to those who gave me blows, and my face to those who were pulling out my hair: I did not keep my face covered from marks of shame.
Zechariah 11:8And in one month I put an end to the three keepers of the flock; for my soul was tired of them, and their souls were disgusted with me.
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 →