Job 19:14
My neighbors have ceased || And my familiar friends have forgotten me,
Literal Standard 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 off from me, || And my acquaintances have surely been estranged from me.
Cross References
Job 42:11And all his brothers come to him, and all his sisters, and all his former acquaintances, and they eat bread with him in his house, and bemoan him, and comfort him concerning all the calamity that YHWH had brought on him, and they each gave to him one kesitah, and each one ring of gold.
Psalms 38:11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from before my plague. And my neighbors have stood far off.
Proverbs 18:24A man with friends—to show himself friendly, || And there is a lover adhering more than a brother!
Micah 7:5Do not believe in a friend, || Do not trust in a leader, || From her who is lying in your bosom keep the openings of your mouth.
John 13:18I do not speak concerning you all; I have known whom I chose for Myself; but that the Writing may be fulfilled: He who is eating the 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 →