Job 19:14
Ceased have my neighbours And my familiar friends have forgotten me,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
In Context
13My brethren from me He hath put far off, And mine acquaintances surely Have been estranged from me.
15Sojourners of my house and my maids, For a stranger reckon me: An alien I have been in their eyes.
Cross References
Job 42:11And come unto him do all his brethren, 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 evil that Jehovah had brought upon him, and they gave to him each one kesitah, and each one ring of gold.
Psalms 38:11My lovers and my friends over-against my plague stand. And my neighbours afar off have stood.
Proverbs 18:24A man with friends [is] to show himself friendly, And there is a lover adhering more than a brother!
Micah 7:5Believe not in a friend, trust not in a leader, From her who is lying in thy bosom keep the openings of thy mouth.
John 13:18not concerning you all do I speak; I have known whom I chose for myself; but that the Writing may be fulfilled: He who is eating the bread with me, did lift up against me his heel.
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 →