Job 30:10
They have abominated me, They have kept far from me, And from before me have not spared to spit.
Young's Literal Translation
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, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword.
11Because His cord He loosed and afflicteth me, And the bridle from before me, They have cast away.
Cross References
Numbers 12:14And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'And her father had but spat in her face — is she not ashamed seven days? she is shut out seven days at the outside of the camp, and afterwards she is gathered.'
Job 17:6And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.
Job 19:19Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me.
Psalms 88:8Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me, Thou hast made me an abomination to them, Shut up — I go not forth.
Isaiah 50:6My back I have given to those smiting, And my cheeks to those plucking out, My face I hid not from shame and spitting.
Zechariah 11:8And I cut off the three shepherds in one month, and my soul is grieved with them, and also their soul hath 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 →