Job 30:10
They have detested me, || They have kept far from me, || And from before me have not spared to spit.
Literal Standard Version
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 have been their song, || And I am to them for a byword.
Cross References
Numbers 12:14And YHWH says to Moses, “But [if] her father had but spat in her face—is she not ashamed [for] seven days? She is shut out [for] seven days at the outside of the camp, and afterward she is gathered.”
Job 17:6And He set me up for a proverb of the peoples, || And I am a wonder before them.
Job 19:19All the men of my counsel detest me, || And those I have loved, || Have been turned against me.
Psalms 88:8You have put my acquaintance far from me, || You have made me an abomination to them, || Shut up—I do not go forth.
Isaiah 50:6I have given My back to those striking, || And My cheeks to those plucking out, || I did not hide My face from shame and spitting.
Zechariah 11:8And I cut off the three shepherds in one month, and my soul is grieved with them, and also their soul has 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 →