Job 30:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, And spare not to spit in my face.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

תִּֽעֲבוּנִי רָ֣חֲקוּ מֶ֑נִּי וּ֝מִפָּנַ֗י לֹא־חָ֥שְׂכוּ רֹֽק

Transliteration

They tiʿăḇûnî they rāḥăqû from me, and from my mippānay not they ḥāśəḵû rōq

Grammar Details

*tiʿăḇûnî*: verb, piel perfect, 3rd person plural with 1st person singular suffix - they abhor me
*rāḥăqû*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person plural - they go far away/keep distance
*mennî*: preposition with 1st person singular suffix - from me
*û-mippānay*: conjunction with preposition with noun, plural with 1st person singular suffix - and from my face
*lōʾ-ḥāśəḵû*: negative particle with verb, qal perfect, 3rd person plural - they do not withhold
*rōq*: noun, masculine singular - spittle/spit

Word Meanings

*tiʿăḇûnî*: they abhor me/they detest me/they loathe me
*rāḥăqû*: they go far away/they distance themselves/they stay far
*mippānay*: from my face/from my presence
*ḥāśəḵû*: withhold/keep back/restrain
*rōq*: spittle/spit/saliva

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Isa 50:6 : 6 I 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.
Matt 26:67 : 67 Then did they spit in his face and buffet him: and some smote him with the palms of their hands,
Ps 88:8 : 8 Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
Num 12:14 : 14 And Jehovah said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut up without the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.
Deut 25:9 : 9 then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto the man that doth not build up his brother's house.
Matt 27:30 : 30 And they spat upon him, and took the reed and smote him on the head.
Job 17:6 : 6 But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.
Job 19:13-14 : 13 He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me. 14 My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Job 19:19 : 19 All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.
Job 42:6 : 6 Wherefore I abhor [myself], And repent in dust and ashes.
Prov 19:7 : 7 All the brethren of the poor do hate him: How much more do his friends go far from him! He pursueth [them with] words, [but] they are gone.
Zech 11:8 : 8 And I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.
Matt 26:56 : 56 But all this is come to pass, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left him, and fled.

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