Psalms 38:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹¹My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

Psalms 38:11 —

Old words in this verse

sore: — greatly, very (as in "sore afraid").

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
Job 19:13-17
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. …
Luke 23:49
And all his acquaintance, and the women that followed him from Galilee, stood afar off, beholding these things.
Luke 10:31-32
And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. …
Psalms 88:18
Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Conviction Guilt Repentance Self-Exaltation Selfishness Sin Unselfishness

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-11)

The title of this psalm is very observable; it is a psalm to bring to remembrance; the 70 th psalm, which was likewise penned in a day of affliction, is so entitled. It is designed, 1. To bring to his own remembrance. We will suppose it penned when he was sick and in pain, and then it teaches us that times of sickness are times to bring to remembrance, to bring the sin to remembrance, for which Go…

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

(vv. 11)

11-12. Friends desert, but foes increase in malignity.