Job 19:13
“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
In Context
12His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.
14My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
Cross References
Job 6:20They were distressed because they were confident. They came there, and were confounded.
Job 16:7But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made all my company desolate.
Psalms 31:11Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.
Psalms 38:11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.
Psalms 69:8I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.
Psalms 69:20Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found none.
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 →