Job 30:10
They despise and shun me; they don't hesitate to spit in my face.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
In Context
9Yet now they mock me in their songs; I have become a joke to them!
11God has made my bowstring loose and humbled me.
Cross References
Numbers 12:14But the Lord replied to Moses, “If her father had spit in her face wouldn't she have been disgraced for seven days? Keep her in isolation outside the camp for seven days, and then she can be taken back in.”
Job 17:6He has made me a proverb of ridicule among the people; they spit in my face.
Job 19:19All my closest friends despise me, and those I loved have turned on me.
Psalms 88:8You have made my friends avoid me by making me look repulsive to them. I'm trapped, I can't go out.
Isaiah 50:6I offered my back for people to beat me and my cheeks for people to pull my beard. I didn't hide my face from their mocking and spitting.
Zechariah 11:8In one month I dismissed three shepherds. I became impatient with them, and they also hated 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 →