My family is gone, and my close friends have forgotten me.
Parallel translations
- WEB My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
- KJV My kinsfolk have failed, and 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.
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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).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Ps 38:11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.
- Matt 10:21“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.
- Prov 18:24A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
- Ps 55:12–14For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me, then I would have hidden myself from him.
- John 13:18I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me.’
- Jer 20:10For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall. “Perhaps he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.”
- Mic 7:5–6Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!
- 2 Sam 16:23The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the inner sanctuary 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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