◄ Job 30:10 ►
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Good News Translation
They treat me with disgust; they think they are too good for me, and even come and spit in my face.

New Revised Standard Version
They abhor me, they keep aloof from me; they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me.

Contemporary English Version
They are hateful and keep their distance, even while spitting in my direction.

New American Bible
They abhor me, they stand aloof, they do not hesitate to spit in my face!

Douay-Rheims Bible
They abhor me, and flee far from me, and are not afraid to spit in my face.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They abhor me, and flee far from me, and are not afraid to spit in my face.

abhor me

Job 19:19 They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he whom I loved most is turned against me.

Job 42:6 Therefore I reprehend myself, and do penance in dust and ashes.

Psalm 88:8 Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me an abomination to themselves. I was delivered up, and came not forth:

Zechariah 11:8 And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was straitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard.

flee far

Job 19:13,14 He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me. . . .

Psalm 88:8 Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me an abomination to themselves. I was delivered up, and came not forth:

Proverbs 19:7 The brethren of the poor man hate him: moreover also his friends have departed far from him. He that followeth after words only, shall have nothing.

Matthew 26:56 Now all this was done that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then the disciples, all leaving him, fled.

spare not to spit in my face.

Numbers 12:14 And the Lord answered him: If her father had spitten upon her face, ought she not to have been ashamed for seven days at least? Let her be separated seven days without the camp, and afterwards she shall be called again.

Deuteronomy 25:9 The woman shall come to him before the ancients, and shall take off his shoe from his foot, and spit in his face, and say: So shall it be done to the man that will not build up his brother's house:

Isaiah 50:6 I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me.

Matthew 26:67 Then did they spit in his face and buffeted him. And others struck his face with the palms of their hands,

Matthew 27:30 And spitting upon him, they took the reed and struck his head.

Context
Job's Honor Turned into Contempt
…9Now I am turned into their song, and am become their byword. 10They abhor me, and flee far from me, and are not afraid to spit in my face.11For he hath opened his quiver, and hath afflicted me, and hath put a bridle into my mouth.…
Cross References
Matthew 26:67
Then did they spit in his face and buffeted him. And others struck his face with the palms of their hands,

Numbers 12:14
And the Lord answered him: If her father had spitten upon her face, ought she not to have been ashamed for seven days at least? Let her be separated seven days without the camp, and afterwards she shall be called again.

Deuteronomy 25:9
The woman shall come to him before the ancients, and shall take off his shoe from his foot, and spit in his face, and say: So shall it be done to the man that will not build up his brother's house:

Job 17:6
He hath made me as it were a byword of the people, and I am an example before them.

Psalm 88:8
Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me an abomination to themselves. I was delivered up, and came not forth:

Isaiah 50:6
I have given my body to the strikers, and my cheeks to them that plucked them: I have not turned away my face from them that rebuked me, and spit upon me.

Lamentations 3:46
Phe. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

Job 30:9
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