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English Standard Version

Job 19:14

My relatives have failed me, my close friends have forgotten me.

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.
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.
Contemporary English Version
and I am forgotten.
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 He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths. 9 He has stripped from me my glory and taken the crown from my head. 10 He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone, and my hope has he pulled up like a tree. 11 He has kindled his wrath against me and counts me as his adversary. 12 His troops come on together; they have cast up their siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent. 13 "He has put my brothers far from me, and those who knew me are wholly estranged from me. 14 My relatives have failed me, my close friends have forgotten me. 15 The guests in my house and my maidservants count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes. 16 I call to my servant, but he gives me no answer; I must plead with him with my mouth for mercy. 17 My breath is strange to my wife, and I am a stench to the children of my own mother.

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
But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house.
Genesis 19:8
Behold, I have two daughters who have not known any man. Let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please. Only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof."
Genesis 19:12
Then the men said to Lot, "Have you anyone else here? Sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or anyone you have in the city, bring them out of the place.
Genesis 19:14
So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, "Up! Get out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.
Genesis 19:17
And as they brought them out, one said, "Escape for your life. Do not look back or stop anywhere in the valley. Escape to the hills, lest you be swept away."
Genesis 19:22
Escape there quickly, for I can do nothing till you arrive there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
Genesis 19:28
And he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and he looked and, behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.
Genesis 19:30
Now Lot went up out of Zoar and lived in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters.
Exodus 9:21
but whoever did not pay attention to the word of the Lord left his slaves and his livestock in the field.
Exodus 12:31
Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, "Up, go out from among my people, both you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the Lord , as you have said.

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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