Psalms 38:11
Those I love and my friends stand aloof from my plague, and my kinsmen stand afar off.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
In Context
10My heart throbs, my strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it also is gone from me.
Cross References
Job 19:13He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
Psalms 31:11I have become a reproach because of all my adversaries, yea, to my neighbors exceedingly, and a fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me outside fled from me.
Isaiah 53:4Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows. Yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.
Matthew 26:56But all this has come to pass, so that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples fled, having forsook him.
Luke 22:54And having seized him, they led him, and brought him into the high priest's house. But Peter followed from afar.
John 16:32Behold, the hour comes, and now has come, that ye will be scattered, each man to his own things, and ye will leave me alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 38:2-12
Sorrowful Complaints. 1 O Lord , rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. 2 For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. 3 There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. 4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as a heavy burden they are too heavy for me. 5 My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. 6 I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. 7… Read the whole commentary →