Job 19:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

Job 19:13 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 88:8
Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
Psalms 88:18
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.
Psalms 69:8
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
Psalms 31:11
I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
Psalms 69:20
Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Brotherly Kindness Fraternity Friendship Love

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-22)

Bildad had very disingenuously perverted Job’s complaints by making them the description of the miserable condition of a wicked man; and yet he repeats them here, to move their pity, and to work upon their good nature, if they had any left in them. I. He complains of the tokens of God’s displeasure which he was under, and which infused the wormwood and gall into the affliction and misery. How dole…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13. brethren--nearest kinsmen, as distinguished from “acquaintance.” So “kinsfolk” and “familiar friends” (Job 19:14) correspond in parallelism. The Arabic proverb is, “The brother, that is, the true friend, is only known in time of need.” estranged--literally, “turn away with disgust.” Job again unconsciously uses language prefiguring the desertion of Jesus Christ (Job 16:10; Lu 23:49; Psa 38:11)…