Job 30:10
They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
Webster 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 their song, yes, I am their by-word.
11Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
Cross References
Numbers 12:14And the LORD said to Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received again .
Job 17:6He hath made me also a by-word of the people; and in former time I was as a tabret.
Job 19:19All my intimate friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
Psalms 88:8Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination to 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 11:8Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul 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 →