Job 30:10
They abhor me and keep far from me; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.
Majority Standard Bible
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 they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.
11Because God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.
Cross References
Numbers 12:14But the LORD answered Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days; after that she may be brought back in.”
Job 17:6He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
Job 19:19All my best friends despise me, and those I love have turned against me.
Psalms 88:8You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
Isaiah 50:6I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.
Zechariah 11:8And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested 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 →