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Job 19:14
14My relatives have left me. My best friends have forgotten me.
Job 19:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
- New International Version (NIV)My relatives have gone away; my closest friends have forgotten me.
- English Standard Version (ESV)My relatives have failed me, my close friends have forgotten me.
- New King James Version (NKJV)My relatives have failed, And my close friends have forgotten me.
Context of Job 19:14
12His whole army is coming to attack me! They build a road so that they can reach me. They are all around me. 13God has caused my brothers to stay away from me. My friends do not want to meet me. My relatives have left me. My best friends have forgotten me. 15Visitors who stayed in my house now think that I am a stranger. Even my servants think that I am a foreigner. 16I tell my servant to come to me but he does not come. I ask him to help me, but he does nothing.
Read all of Job 19Job 19:14 word by word
חָדְל֥וּ קְרוֹבָ֑י וּֽמְיֻדָּעַ֥י שְׁכֵחֽוּנִי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 19:14
- Psalms 38:11My family and my friends stay away from me, because of my illness. They do not come near to me.
- Proverbs 18:24A man with many friends may lose them. But there is a friend who is more faithful than a brother.
- Micah 7:5Do not believe anyone, even somebody that you know well. You cannot be sure that your friend will always be honest with you. Be careful what you say to your wife. Be careful even when you are hugging her.
- Matthew 10:21At that time, a man will let people kill his own brother. A father will let people kill his own child. Children will be against their parents. They will even ask people to kill their parents.
- 2 Samuel 16:23In those days, people thought that Ahithophel's words were as good as a message from God. So Absalom trusted Ahithophel as his advisor, as David had done too.
- Psalms 55:12But it is not my enemies that have insulted me. That would not have hurt me. If my enemy laughs at me, I can always hide from him!
- Jeremiah 20:10I hear what people are saying against me. They say, ‘Terror is all around him! We should tell the officers what he is saying.’ All my friends want me to make a mistake so that they can accuse me. They say, ‘Perhaps we can cause him to say something wrong. Then we will have power over him. We will pay him back for the trouble he has given us.’
- John 13:18Jesus then said, ‘I am not talking about all of you. I know the people that I have chosen. The Bible says, “Someone who ate food with me has turned against me.”
Commentaries on Job 19:14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14My kinsfolk have failed - Literally, departed: they have all left my house, now there is no more hope of gain.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14My kinsfolk have failed - My neighbors (קרובי qârôbāy ), those who were near to me. It may refer to “nearness” of affinity, friendship, or residence. The essential idea is that of “nearness” - whether by blood, affection, or vicinity. In Psalm 38:11, it denotes near friends. And my familiar friends - Those who knew me - מידעי myudā‛ay The allusion is to those who were “intimately” acquainted with him, or who were his bosom friends.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-22Verses 8-22 How doleful are Job's complaints! What is the fire of hell but the wrath of God! Seared consciences will feel it hereafter, but do not fear it now: enlightened consciences fear it now, but shall not feel it hereafter. It is a very common mistake to think that those whom God afflicts he treats as his enemies. Every creature is that to us which God makes it to be; yet this does not excuse Job's relations and friends. How uncertain is the…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-29SECOND SERIES. 2. How long, &c.--retorting Bildad's words (Job 18:2). Admitting the punishment to be deserved, is it kind thus ever to be harping on this to the sufferer? And yet even this they have not yet proved.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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