English Standard Version
Job 30:10
10They abhor me; they keep aloof from me; they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me.
Job 30:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
- New International Version (NIV)They detest me and keep their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.
- New King James Version (NKJV)They abhor me, they keep far from me; They do not hesitate to spit in my face.
- New Living Translation (NLT)They despise me and won’t come near me, except to spit in my face.
Context of Job 30:10
8A senseless, a nameless brood, they have been whipped out of the land. 9"And now I have become their song; I am a byword to them. They abhor me; they keep aloof from me; they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me. 11Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me, they have cast off restraint in my presence. 12On my right hand the rabble rise; they push away my feet; they cast up against me their ways of destruction.
Read all of Job 30Job 30:10 word by word
תִּֽ֭עֲבוּנִי רָ֣חֲקוּ מֶ֑נִּי וּ֝מִפָּנַ֗י לֹא־חָ֥שְׂכוּ רֹֽק׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 30:10
- Job 19:19All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.
- Job 42:6therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes."
- Psalms 88:8You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;
- Zechariah 11:8In one month I destroyed the three shepherds. But I became impatient with them, and they also detested me.
- Job 19:13"He has put my brothers far from me, and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me.
- Proverbs 19:7All a poor man's brothers hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues them with words, but does not have them.
- Matthew 26:56But all this has taken place that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples left him and fled.
- Numbers 12:14But the Lord said to Moses, "If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be shamed seven days? Let her be shut outside the camp seven days, and after that she may be brought in again."
- Deuteronomy 25:9then his brother's wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face. And she shall answer and say, 'So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.'
- Isaiah 50:6I gave my back to those who strike, and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard; I hid not my face from disgrace and spitting.
- Matthew 26:67Then they spit in his face and struck him. And some slapped him,
- Matthew 27:30And they spit on him and took the reed and struck him on the head.
Commentaries on Job 30:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10They abhor me - What a state must civil society be in when such indignities were permitted to be offered to the aged and afflicted!Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10They abhor me - Hebrew, They regard me as abominable. They flee far from me - Even such an impious and low born race now will have nothing to do with me. They would consider it no honor to be associated with me, but keep as far from me as possible. And spare not to spit in my face - Margin, “withhold not spittle from.” Noyes renders this “Before my face;” and so Luther Wemyss, Umbreit, and Prof. Lee. The Hebrew may mean either to spit in the face, or to…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10keep far from me: See also 19:13–15; compare Psalm 88:8; Proverbs 19:7; Matthew 26:56. Spitting in someone's face showed extreme dislike or hatred (Deuteronomy 25:9; Isaiah 50:6; Matthew 26:67; 27:30; Mark 14:65).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. in my face--rather, refrain not to spit in deliberate contempt before my face. To spit at all in presence of another is thought in the East insulting, much more so when done to mark "abhorrence." Compare the further insult to Jesus Christ (Is 50:6; Mt 26:67).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 30
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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