Job 19:14
My kinsfolk have failed, and my known friends have forgotten me.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
In Context
13He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are quite estranged from me.
15The sojourners in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight.
Cross References
Job 42:11And all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house, and they condoled with him, and comforted him concerning all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon him; and every one gave him a piece of money, and every one a golden ring.
Psalms 38:11My lovers and mine associates stand aloof from my stroke; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
Proverbs 18:24A man of [many] friends will come to ruin but there is a friend [that] sticketh closer than a brother.
Micah 7:5Believe ye not in a companion, put not confidence in a familiar friend: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
John 13:18I speak not of you all. I know those whom I have chosen; but that the scripture might be fulfilled, He that eats bread with me has 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 →