“My relatives stay far away, and my friends have turned against me.
Parallel translations
- WEB “He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
- KJV He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
- BSB He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.
- NKJV “Hehas removed my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances are completely estranged from me.
- NASB ¶“He has removed my brothers far from me, And my acquaintances have completely turned away from me.
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Quick answer
Job laments that God has driven his brothers and acquaintances far from him. His relational losses are part of his suffering.
Overview
Job traces even his social abandonment to God's hand, as kin and friends withdraw in his affliction. Isolation compounds his physical and spiritual agony, a common burden of the deeply suffering. His experience anticipates Christ, forsaken by friends in his suffering, who therefore sympathizes with the lonely and afflicted (Mark 14:50).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Ps 88:8You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.
- Ps 69:8I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.
- Ps 88:18You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.
- Ps 31:11Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.
- Ps 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.
- 2 Tim 4:16At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.
- Job 16:7But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.
- Matt 26:56But all this has happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him, and fled.
- Job 6:21–23For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.
- Ps 38:11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.
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