Job 30:10
They loathe me, and so they flee far from me, and they are not reluctant to spit in my face.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
In Context
9Now I become their song, and I have been made into their proverb.
11For he has opened his quiver and has afflicted me, and he has placed a bridle in my mouth.
Cross References
Numbers 12:14And the Lord answered him: “If her father had spit on her face, should she not have been filled with shame for at least seven days? Let her be separated, outside the camp, for seven days, and after that, she will be called back.”
Job 17:6He has posted me like a proverb to the people, and I am an example in their presence.
Job 19:19Those who were sometimes my counselors, treat me like an abomination; and he whom I valued the most has turned against me.
Psalms 88:8God is glorified by the counsel of the saints. He is great and terrible above all those who are around him.
Isaiah 50:6I have given my body to those who strike me, and my cheeks to those who plucked them. I have not averted my face from those who rebuked me and who spit on me.
Zechariah 11:8And I cut down three shepherds in one month. And my soul became contracted concerning them, just as their soul also varied concerning 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 →