Job 30:10
They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
Revised Version 1895
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 a byword unto them.
11For he hath loosed his cord, and afflicted me, and they have cast off the bridle before me.
Cross References
Numbers 12:14And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut up without the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.
Job 17:6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and I am become an open abhorring.
Job 19:19All my inward friends abhor me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
Psalms 88:8Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
Isaiah 50:6I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
Zechariah 11:8And I 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 →