Job 19:14
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
In Context
13He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
15Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, reckon me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
Cross References
Job 42:11Then there came to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. And they bemoaned him, and comforted him concerning all the evil that LORD ha
Psalms 38:11Those I love and my friends stand aloof from my plague, and my kinsmen stand afar off.
Proverbs 18:24He who makes many friends [does it] to his own destruction, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Micah 7:5Trust ye not in a neighbor. Put ye not confidence in a friend. Keep the doors of thy mouth from her who lays in thy bosom.
John 13:18I speak not about you all. I have seen whom I chose, but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He who eats bread with me lifted up his heel against me.
Matthew Henry on Job 19:9-23
Job Complains of God's Displeasure; Job Complains of His Friends. ( b. c. 1520.) 8 He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths. 9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head. 10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree. 11 He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies. 12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my… Read the whole commentary →