I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.
Parallel translations
- KJV I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
- BSB I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother’s sons,
- NKJV I have become a stranger to my brothers, And an alien to my mother’s children;
- NASB I have become estranged from my brothers, And a stranger to my mother’s sons.
- NLT Even my own brothers pretend they don’t know me; they treat me like a stranger.
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- 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.
- John 7:5For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.
- John 1:11He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him.
- Ps 38:11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.
- 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!
- Matt 10:35–36For I came to set a man at odds against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
- Matt 26:70–74But he denied it before them all, saying, “I don’t know what you are talking about.”
- 1 Sam 17:28Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.”
- Job 19:13–19“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.
- Isa 53:3He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
- Matt 10:21–22“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.
- Matt 26:56But all this has happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him, and fled.
- Matt 26:48–50Now he who betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, “Whoever I kiss, he is the one. Seize him.”
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