Job 30:10
They loathe me, they keep themselves far from me, and from my face they withhold not their spittle.
Leeser Tanakh
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 become their song, and I am become a byword unto them.
Cross References
Numbers 12:14And the Lord said unto Moses, If her father had spit in her face, would she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut up seven days outside of the camp, and after that let her be brought in again.
Job 17:6And he hath placed me here as a by-word unto nations; and I become openly as a place of abomination.
Job 19:19All that have had my confidence abominate me; and those whom I have loved are turned against me.
Psalms 88:8(88:9) Thou hast removed my acquaintances far from me; thou hast rendered me an abomination unto them: I am imprisoned, and I cannot go forth.
Isaiah 50:6My back I gave up to the smiters, and my cheeks to those that plucked off the hair: my face I hid not from abuse and spitting.
Zechariah 11:8And I removed the three shepherds in one month; and my soul was tired of them, and also their soul abhorred 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 →