Job 30:10
They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
In Context
9“Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.
11For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.
Cross References
Numbers 12:14The LORD said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, shouldn’t she be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut up outside of the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.”
Job 17:6“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
Job 19:19All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
Psalms 88:8You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.
Isaiah 50:6I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.
Zechariah 11:8I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed 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 →