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John Gill's Exposition on Job 30:10
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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They abhor me, etc.] As it is no wonder they should, since his inward and most intimate friends did, (<181919>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, (<184206>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 <300510>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, (<411507>Mark 15:7,11); (see <381108>Zechariah 11:8 <234907>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, (<235303>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, (<235006>Isaiah 50:6 <402667>Matthew 26:67 27:20).
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