Job 30:10
They abhor me, they stand aloof from me; They forbear not to spit before my face.
Noyes 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 I am become their song; Yea, I am their by-word!
11Yea, they let loose the reins, and humble me; They cast off the bridle before me.
Cross References
Job 17:6He made me the by-word of the people; Yea, I have become their abhorrence.
Job 19:19All my bosom friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.
Psalms 88:8Thou hast put mine acquaintances far from me, Yea, thou hast made me their abhorrence: I am shut up, and cannot go forth.
Isaiah 50:6I gave my back to the smiters, And my cheeks to them that pluck the beard; I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
Zechariah 11:8And I cut off three shepherds in one month; for I was weary of them, and they also 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 →