Job 30:10
And they stood aloof and abhorred me, and spared not to spit in my face.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
In Context
9But now I am their music, and they have me for a by-word.
11For he has opened his quiver and afflicted me: they also have cast off the restraint of my presence.
Cross References
Numbers 12:14And the Lord said to Moses, If her father had only spit in her face, + 12:14 Gr. will.would she not be ashamed seven days? let her be set apart seven days without the camp, and afterwards she shall come in.
Job 17:6But thou hast made me a byword among the nations, and I am become a scorn to them.
Job 19:19They that saw me abhorred me: the very persons whom I had loved, rose up against me.
Psalms 88:8God is glorified in the council of the saints; great and terrible toward all that are round about him.
Isaiah 50:6I gave my back to scourges, and my cheeks to blows; and I turned not away my face from the shame of spitting:
Zechariah 11:8And I will cut off three shepherds in one month; and my soul shall + 11:8 Or, be sorely displeased with them. Gr. be weighed down upon them.grieve over them, for their souls cried out against 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 →