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Job 19:14

LonelinessFriendship

12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.
KJV
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
WEB
My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
ASV
My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.
DARBY
My kinsfolk have failed, and my known friends have forgotten me.
BLB
Those near to me have ceased, and those known to me have forgotten me.
ÅB
Mine nærmeste holder seg borte, og mine kjente har glemt meg.
OTB
De som er i slekt med meg har sviktet meg;
mine nære venner har glemt meg.
B1930
Mine nærmeste holder sig borte, og mine kjente har glemt mig.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Psalms 38:11

    My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

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  • Matthew 10:21

    And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.

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  • Jeremiah 20:10

    For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

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  • Proverbs 18:24

    A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

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  • John 13:18

    I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.

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  • Micah 7:5–6

    Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

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  • 2 Samuel 16:23

    And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.

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  • Psalms 55:12–14

    For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

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