My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Parallel translations
- WEB My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
- BSB My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.
- NKJV My relatives have failed, And my close friends have forgotten me.
- NASB “My relatives have failed, And my close friends have forgotten me.
- NLT My family is gone, and my close friends have forgotten me.
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Quick answer
Job says his relatives have deserted him and his close friends have forgotten him. He is left utterly alone.
Overview
Those bound to Job by blood and intimacy have abandoned and forgotten him in his hour of need. The loss of family and trusted companions deepens his desolation. Job's abandonment foreshadows the greater forsakenness of Christ, who endured rejection so that his people might never be ultimately forsaken (Hebrews 13:5).
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- Ps 38:11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
- Matt 10:21And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
- Prov 18:24A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
- Ps 55:12–14For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
- John 13:18I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.
- Jer 20:10For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
- Mic 7:5–6Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
- 2 Sam 16:23And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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