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Contemporary English Version

Job 19:14

and I am forgotten.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Friendship;   Thompson Chain Reference - Job;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ingratitude;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Know, Knowledge;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Leper;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Familiar;   Job, Book of;   Lead;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
My relatives stop coming by,and my close friends have forgotten me.
Hebrew Names Version
My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
King James Version
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
English Standard Version
My relatives have failed me, my close friends have forgotten me.
New Century Version
My relatives have gone away, and my friends have forgotten me.
New English Translation
My kinsmen have failed me; my friends have forgotten me.
Amplified Bible
"My relatives have failed [me], And my intimate friends have forgotten me.
New American Standard Bible
"My relatives have failed, And my close friends have forgotten me.
World English Bible
My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
My neighbours haue forsaken me, and my familiars haue forgotten me.
Legacy Standard Bible
My relatives have failed,And my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Berean Standard Bible
My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.
Complete Jewish Bible
my kinsfolk have failed me, and my close friends have forgotten me.
Darby Translation
My kinsfolk have failed, and my known friends have forgotten me.
Easy-to-Read Version
My relatives have left me. My friends have forgotten me.
George Lamsa Translation
My kinsfolk have failed me, and my familiar friends have forsaken me.
Good News Translation
my relatives and friends are gone.
Lexham English Bible
My relatives have failed, and my close friends have forgotten me.
Literal Translation
My near ones have fallen away, and ones knowing me have forgotten me.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Myne owne kyn?folkes haue forsaken me, and my frendes haue put me out of remembraunce.
American Standard Version
My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Bible in Basic English
My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
King James Version (1611)
My kinsefolke haue failed, and my familiar friends haue forgotten me.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Myne owne kinsefolkes haue forsaken me, and my best acquainted haue forgotten me.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
My nearest of kin have not acknowledged me, and they that knew my name, have forgotten me.
English Revised Version
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
My neiyboris forsoken me; and thei that knewen me han foryete me.
Update Bible Version
My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Webster's Bible Translation
My kinsmen have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
New King James Version
My relatives have failed, And my close friends have forgotten me.
New Living Translation
My family is gone, and my close friends have forgotten me.
New Life Bible
My brothers have left me, and my close friends have forgotten me.
New Revised Standard
My relatives and my close friends have failed me;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Failed me, have my near of kin, and, mine intimate acquaintances, have forgotten me;
Douay-Rheims Bible
My kinsmen have forsaken me, and they that knew me, have forgotten me.
Revised Standard Version
My kinsfolk and my close friends have failed me;
Young's Literal Translation
Ceased have my neighbours And my familiar friends have forgotten me,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"My relatives have failed, And my intimate friends have forgotten me.

Contextual Overview

8 God has me trapped with a wall of darkness 9 and stripped of respect. 10 God rips me apart, uproots my hopes, 11 and attacks with fierce anger, as though I were his enemy. 12 His entire army advances, then surrounds my tent. 13 God has turned relatives and friends against me, 14 and I am forgotten. 15 My guests and my servants consider me a stranger, 16 and when I call my servants, they pay no attention. 17 My breath disgusts my wife; everyone in my family turns away.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

kinsfolk: Psalms 38:11, Proverbs 18:24, Micah 7:5, Micah 7:6, Matthew 10:21

familiar: 2 Samuel 16:23, Psalms 55:12-14, Jeremiah 20:10, John 13:18

Reciprocal: Genesis 40:23 - but forgat him Job 2:8 - took him Job 2:12 - knew him Job 30:10 - flee far Job 42:11 - all his brethren Psalms 31:11 - especially Proverbs 14:20 - poor Lamentations 1:2 - all her friends Mark 14:50 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 19:4
Before Lot and his guests could go to bed, every man in Sodom, young and old, came and stood outside his house
Genesis 19:8
I have two daughters who have never been married. I'll bring them out, and you can do what you want with them. But don't harm these men. They are guests in my home."
Genesis 19:12
The two angels said to Lot, "The Lord has heard many terrible things about the people of Sodom, and he has sent us here to destroy the city. Take your family and leave. Take every relative you have in the city, as well as the men your daughters are going to marry."
Genesis 19:14
Lot went to the men who were engaged to his daughters and said, "Hurry and get out of here! The Lord is going to destroy this city." But they thought he was joking, and they laughed at him.
Genesis 19:17
When they were outside, one of the angels said, "Run for your lives! Don't even look back. And don't stop in the valley. Run to the hills, where you will be safe."
Genesis 19:22
Hurry! Run! I can't do anything until you are safely there." The town was later called Zoar because Lot had said it was small.
Genesis 19:28
He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and saw smoke rising from all over the land—it was like a flaming furnace.
Genesis 19:30
Lot was afraid to stay on in Zoar. So he took his two daughters and moved to a cave in the hill country.
Exodus 9:21
But others paid no attention to his threats and left their slaves and animals out in the open.
Exodus 12:31
During the night the king sent for Moses and Aaron and told them, "Get your people out of my country and leave us alone! Go and worship the Lord , as you have asked.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

My kinsfolk have failed,.... Or "ceased" a, not to be, or that they were dead, which is sometimes the sense of the word; but they ceased from visiting him, or doing any good office for him; those that were "near" b him, as the word used signifies; that were near him in relation, and were often near him in place, in his own house, in company and conversation with him, now ceased to be near him in affection; or to come nigh him, to converse with him and comfort him, and sympathize with him, which might be expected from persons nearly related:

and my familiar friends have forgotten me; such as were well known to him, and he to them, and who not long ago were very loving and friendly to him, and very freely and familiarly conversed with him; but now they forgot him; the friendship that subsisted between them, the friendliness with which they had visited him, and the favours they had received from him; they so slighted and neglected him, that it seemed as if he was forgotten, as a dead man, out of mind; or as if they did not remember that there ever was, or at least that there now was, such a man in the world as Job: these could not be true friends; for "a friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity",

Proverbs 17:17; a real friend loves, and continues to love, in adversity as well as in prosperity; and such an one, who sometimes sticks closer to a man than a brother, is born and designed to be of service to him in a time of trouble; but so it was ordered by divine Providence, and according to the will of God, that Job should meet with such treatment from his brethren, relations, acquaintance, and familiar friends, for the trial of his faith and patience.

a חדלו "desierunt", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Mercerus, Drusius, Piscator, Schmidt, Michaelis; "cessant", Schultens. b קרובי "propinqui mei", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

My 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 Psalms 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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 19:14. My kinsfolk have failed — Literally, departed: they have all left my house, now there is no more hope of gain.


 
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