Job 30:10
They abhorre me, and flee farre from mee, and spare not to spit in my face.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 am I their song, and I am their talke.
11Because that God hath loosed my corde and humbled mee, they haue loosed the bridle before me.
Cross References
Numbers 12:14And the Lord said vnto Moses, If her father had spit in her face, shoulde she not haue bene ashamed seuen dayes? let her be shut out of the hoste seuen dayes, and after she shall bee receiued.
Job 17:6Hee hath also made mee a byword of the people, and I am as a Tabret before them.
Job 19:19All my secret friends abhorred me, and they whome I loued, are turned against me.
Psalms 88:8Thou hast put away mine acquaintance farre from me, and made mee to be abhorred of them: I am shut vp, and cannot get foorth.
Isaiah 50:6I gaue my backe vnto the smiters, and my cheekes to the nippers: I hidde not my face from shame and spitting.
Zechariah 11:8Three shepherdes also I cut off in one moneth, and my soule lothed them, and their soule 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 →