Job 30:10
They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, yea, they spare not to spit in my face.
Darby Translation
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 am their song, yea, I am their byword.
11For he hath loosed my cord and afflicted me; so they cast off the bridle before me.
Cross References
Numbers 12:14And Jehovah said to Moses, But had her father anyways spat in her face, should she not be shamed seven days? She shall be shut outside the camp seven days, and afterwards she shall be received in [again].
Job 17:6And he hath made me a proverb of the peoples; and I am become one to be spit on in the face.
Job 19:19All my intimate friends abhor me, and they whom I loved are turned against me.
Psalms 88:8Thou hast put my familiar friends far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
Isaiah 50:6I gave my back to smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
Zechariah 11:8And I destroyed three shepherds in one month; and my soul was vexed with them, and their soul also loathed 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 →