Job 30:10

10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

Job 30:10 Meaning and Commentary

Job 30:10

They abhor me
As it is no wonder they should, since his inward and most intimate friends did, ( Job 19:19 ) ; they abhorred him, not for any evil in him; Job was ready enough to abhor that himself, and himself for it, as he did when sensible of it, ( Job 42:6 ) ; but for the good that was in him, spoken or done by him; which carried in it a reproof to them they could not bear; see ( Amos 5:10 ) ; they abhorred him also because of his present meanness and poverty, and because of his afflictions and distresses; and particularly the diseases of his body; so Christ was abhorred by the Scribes, Pharisees and elders of the people, the three shepherds his soul loathed, and their soul abhorred him for his meanness and for his ministry: and even by the whole nation of the Jews, by the body of the people, particularly when they preferred Barabbas, a thief and a murderer, to him, ( Mark 15:7 Mark 15:11 ) ; see ( Zechariah 11:8 ) ( Isaiah 49:7 ) ;

they flee from me;
as from some hideous monster, or infectious person, as if he had the plague on him, or some nauseous disease, the stench of which they could not bear; so Christ his antitype was used by: his people; when they saw him in his afflictions they hid their faces from him, did not care to look at him, or come nigh him, ( Isaiah 53:3 ) ;

and spare not to spit in my face;
not in his presence only, as some think, which is too low a sense, but literally and properly in his face, when they vouchsafed to come near him; in this opprobrious way they used him, than which nothing was a greater indignity and affront; and we need not scruple to interpret it in this sense of Job, since our Lord, whose type he was in this and other things, was so treated, ( Isaiah 50:6 ) ( Matthew 26:67 ) ( 27:20 ) .

Job 30:10 In-Context

8 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men; they were viler than the earth.
9 "And now am I their song; yea, I am their byword.
10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
11 Because He hath loosed my cord and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
12 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destructiveness.
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