Job 30:10
They abhor me, and flee far from me, and are not afraid to spit in my face.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 am turned into their song, and am become their byword.
11For he hath opened his quiver, and hath afflicted me, and hath put a bridle into my mouth.
Cross References
Numbers 12:14And the Lord answered him: If her father had spitten upon her face, ought she not to have been ashamed for seven days at least? Let her be separated seven days without the camp, and after wards she shall be called again.
Job 17:6He hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an example before them.
Job 19:19They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he whom I love most is turned against me.
Psalms 88:8Thy wrath is strong over me: and all thy waves thou hast brought in upon me.
Isaiah 50:6I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me.
Zechariah 11:8And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was straitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard.
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 →