Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

they abhor me, they flee far from me, and stain my face with spittle,

New American Standard Bible

“They abhor me and stand aloof from me,
And they do not refrain from spitting at my face.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

They despise me and keep their distance from me;
they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

International Standard Version

They abhor me they keep their distance from me; but they don't refrain from spitting at the sight of me.

A Conservative Version

They abhor me. They stand aloof from me, and do not spare to spit in my face.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


“They hate me, they stand aloof from me,
And do not refrain from spitting in my face.

Bible in Basic English

I am disgusting to them; they keep away from me, and put marks of shame on me.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

They abhorred me, they removed far from me, and withheld not spittle from my face.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

They abhor me; they keep aloof from me, and they do not withhold spit from my face

Modern King James verseion

They despise me, and they flee far from me; they do not spare spit from my face.

NET Bible

They detest me and maintain their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

New Heart English Bible

They abhor me, they keep their distance from me, and do not hesitate to spit in my face.

The Emphasized Bible

They abhor me - have put themselves far from me, and, from my face, have not withheld - spittle!

Webster

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

World English Bible

They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don't hesitate to spit in my face.

Youngs Literal Translation

They have abominated me, They have kept far from me, And from before me have not spared to spit.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
תּעב 
Ta`ab 
Usage: 22

me, they flee far
רחק 
Rachaq 
...far, ...off, ...away, remove, good way
Usage: 57

not to spit
רק 
Roq 
Usage: 3

Context Readings

Job's Final Defense Continued

9 Now am I their song, and am become their jesting stock; 10 they abhor me, they flee far from me, and stain my face with spittle, 11 for the LORD hath opened his quiver: he hath hit me, and put a bridle in my mouth.

Cross References

Numbers 12:14

And the LORD said unto Moses, "If her father had spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? Let her be shut out of the host seven days, and after that let her be received in again."

Psalm 88:8

Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me, and made me to be abhorred of them. I am so fast in prison that I cannot get forth.

Isaiah 50:6

But I offer my back unto the smiters, and my cheeks to the nippers. I turn not my face from shame and spitting,

Matthew 26:67

Then spat they in his face, and buffeted him with their fists. And others smote him with the palm of their hands on the face,

Deuteronomy 25:9

then let his sister-in-law go unto him in the presence of the elders and loose his shoe off his foot and spit in his face and answer and say, 'So shall it be done unto that man that will not build his brother's house.'

Matthew 27:30

and spitted upon him, and took the reed and smote him on the head.

Job 17:6

He hath made me as it were a byword of the common people. I am his jesting stock among them.

Job 19:13-14

He hath put my brethren far away from me, and such as were of mine acquaintance, are become strangers unto me.

Job 19:19

All such as were my most familiars, abhor me: And they whom I loved best, are turned against me.

Job 42:6

Wherefore I give mine own self the blame, and take repentance in the dust and ashes."

Proverbs 19:7

As for the poor, he is hated among all his brethren; yea, his own friends forsake him, and he that giveth credence unto words, getteth nothing.

Zechariah 11:8

Three shepherds destroyed I in one month, for I might not away with them, neither had they any delight in me.

Matthew 26:56

All this was done that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples forsook him and fled.

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