Psalms 88:8(v13)You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.
Psalms 38:11(vv13, 14, 19)My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my plague. My kinsmen stand far away.
Psalms 41:9(v19)Yes, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who ate bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me.
Psalms 69:8(v13)I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother’s children.
Psalms 88:18(v13)You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.
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2 Kings 2:23(v18)He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up,…
Psalms 31:11(v13)Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the…
Psalms 55:12-14(vv14, 19)For it was not an enemy who insulted me, then I could have endured it. Neither was it he who hated me who raised himself up against me,…
Job 2:9-10(v17)Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.” But he said to her, “You speak as one of the…
Job 30:1(v18)“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.
Job 30:12(v18)On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.
Psalms 69:20(v13)Reproach has broken my heart, and I am full of heaviness. I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; for comforters, but I found…
Psalms 109:4-5(v19)In return for my love, they are my adversaries; but I am in prayer. They have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
2 Samuel 16:23(v14)The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the inner sanctuary of God. All the counsel of…
Job 1:15-17(v16)and the Sabeans attacked, and took them away. Yes, they have killed the servants with the edge of the sword, and I alone have escaped to…
Job 6:14-15(v19)“To him who is ready to faint, kindness should be shown from his friend; even to him who forsakes the fear of the Almighty. My brothers…
Job 6:21-23(v13)For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid. Did I say, ‘Give to me?’ or, ‘Offer a present for me from your substance?’ or,…
Job 16:7(v13)But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made all my company desolate.
Job 17:1(v17)“My spirit is consumed. My days are extinct, and the grave is ready for me.
Job 31:31-32(v15)if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’ (the foreigner has not camped in the street,…
Psalms 55:20(v19)He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant.
Psalms 123:3(v15)Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.
Proverbs 18:24(v14)A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Isaiah 3:5(v18)The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man,…
Jeremiah 20:10(v14)For I have heard the defaming of many, “Terror on every side! Denounce, and we will denounce him!” say all my familiar friends, those who…
Micah 7:5-6(v14)Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!…
Matthew 10:21(v14)“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to…
Matthew 26:56(v13)But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.
Luke 22:48(v19)But Jesus said to him, “Judas, do you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?”
John 13:18(v14)I don’t speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with me has…
2 Timothy 4:16(v13)At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them.
Job 1:19(v16)and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and struck the four corners of the house, and it fell on the young men, and they…
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Geneva Bible translators1599 · Public DomainOn vv15, 17Mine household servants: by all these losses Job showeth…
Mine household servants: by all these losses Job showeth that touching the flesh he had great occasion to be moved.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp1656 · Public DomainOn vv13–19Job 19:13 He hath put my brethren far from…
Job 19:13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
Ver. 13. He hath put my brethren far from me] In their affections at least. Some stuck to him, but for a mischief, for they proved miserable comforters, as did likewise Peter to our Saviour, who fled not with the rest of the disciples, but better he had for any good he did him. "A brother is born for adversity," saith Solomon, Pro 17:17; and although at other times there may be some unkindness, fratrum concordia rara est, Harmonious amoung brothers is rare. yet in affliction and extremity good nature will work, and good blood will not belie itself. But Job’s brethren proved unkind, and grew out of kind; they got farthest from him when his enemies had besieged him. And all this befell him, not without the Lord. He hath put my brethren far from me; this was no small aggravation of the affliction, that God withdrew or withheld that assistance and influence that should have enlarged and united the hearts of his brethren unto him. See Psa 105:25.
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And mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me] Those that formerly knew me thoroughly, and were as well known of me, mine intimate friends, who knew all my heart, are now truly as strange to me, as if there had never been any such matter of acquaintance, Noti mei (Vulgate). Necessarii mei (Tigur.). R. Solomon readeth it, They are cruel to me, Quasi esset scriptum aczaru. "All the brethren of the poor man hate him," saith Solomon, Pro 19:7, "how much more do his friends go far from him?" He pursueth them with words; yet they are lacking to him. This the heathen (as Ovid and others) heavily complain of. Aφιλον το δυστυχες (Thue.). Et cum fortuna statque caditque fides (Ovid.). Tempera si fuerint nubila, solus eris (Ibid.). In the river Araris there is reported to be a fish called Scolopidus, which at the waxing of the moon is as white as the driven snow, and at the waning thereof is as black as a burnt coal. A fit emblem of a false friend. "Wealth maketh many friends but the poor is separated from his neighbour," Pro 19:4, who therefore turneth from him as a stranger, if not against him as an enemy.
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Matthew Poole1685 · Public DomainOn vv13–19My brethren, i.e. my kindred and friends, who might…
My brethren, i.e. my kindred and friends, who might and should have supported and comforted me in my distress.
Far from me; either,
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1. In place; because they feared or disdained, or at least neglected, to visit or succour me. Or,
2. In their affections, which are far from me, when their bodies are present with me, as I find in you. But this also I ascribe to God; he hath alienated your hearts from me.
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John Gill1763 · Public DomainOn vv13–19My kinsfolk have failed,.... Or "ceased" (a), not to…
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", Pro 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.
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John Wesley1765 · Public DomainOn vv13, 15, 18, 19Estranged - As we must eye the hand of…
Estranged - As we must eye the hand of God, in all the injuries we receive from our enemies, so likewise in all the slights and unkindnesses we receive from our friends.
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Adam Clarke1810 · Public DomainOn vv14, 15, 17, 19Verse 14. My kinsfolk have failed] Literally, departed: they…
Verse 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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Joseph Benson1811 · Public DomainOn vv13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19Job 19:13. He hath put my brethren far from…
Job 19:13. He hath put my brethren far from me, &c. — I looked for some support and comfort from my kindred and friends, but they were so astonished at the number and dreadfulness of my calamities that they fled from me as a man accursed of God: and as for my neighbours, who formerly much courted my acquaintance: they keep aloof from me, as if they had never known me. As we must see the hand of God in all the injuries we receive from our enemies, so likewise in all the slights and unkindnesses we receive from our friends.
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Albert Barnes1834 · Public DomainOn vv13–19He hath put my brethren - This is a…
He hath put my brethren - This is a new source of afflication that he had not adverted to before, that God had caused all his children to be estranged from him - a calamity which he regarded as the crown of all his woes. The word rendered “my brethren” (אחי 'âchāy) means means properly “my brothers” - but whether he means literally his brothers, or whether he designs it to be taken in a figuratie sense as denoting his intimate friends, or those of the same rank in life or calling, it is impossible now to determine.
And mine acquaintance - My friends - on whom I relied in time of calamity.
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And verily estranged - They have forgotten me, and treat me as a stranger. What an accurate description is this of what often occurs! In prosperity a man will be surrounded by friends; but as soon as his prosperity is stripped away, and he is overwhelmed with calamity, they withdraw, and leave him to suffer alone. Proud of his acquaintance before, they now pass him by as a stranger, or treat him with cold civility, and when he “needs” their friendship, they are gone.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary1859 · Public DomainOn vv17–19Entreated. Protestants add, "for the children’s sake of mine…
Entreated. Protestants add, "for the children’s sake of mine own body." Septuagint, "I invited with flattering speeches the sons of my concubines. (18) But they cast me from them for ever. When I arise, they speak against me." (Haydock) --- Interpreters generally suppose that Job speaks of the children by his inferior wives: though he might have some at home by the first wife, who were not old enough to be invited to the feast, with those who were destroyed. (Calmet)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown1871 · Public DomainOn vv13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19brethren--nearest kinsmen, as distinguished from "acquaintance." So "kinsfolk" and…
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; Luk 23:49; Psa 38:11).
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Daniel D. Whedon1874 · Public DomainOn vv13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19Second strophe — God’s treatment of Job has resulted…
Second strophe — God’s treatment of Job has resulted in the alienation of his friends of every grade, so that the menials of his house now treat him with contempt, Job_19:13-20.
13. My brethren — Umbreit cites an Arabic proverb, “The brother — that is, the true friend — is only known in time of need.” Job specifies six different phases of friendship, or classes of friends, whom his sufferings had alienated: in general, his brethren, (Job_6:15;) his “knowers,” “confidants,” (acquaintance;) his kinsmen. “near ones,” (Psa_38:11 :) “those familiarly known,” (familiar friends,) Job_19:14; sojourners in his house, (Job_19:15;) and finally, bosom friends. (inward friends,) Job_19:19.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges1878 · Public DomainOn vv13, 15, 17, 18, 1913–14. First, his relations outside his own immediate circle…
13–14. First, his relations outside his own immediate circle and his acquaintances stood aloof from him.
13–19. The estrangement and abhorrence of men.
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Job’s complaint now is even more touching than before: God not only afflicted him with trouble but removed far from him all human sympathy. And there is something more breaking to the heart in the turning away of men from us than in the severest sufferings. It crushes us quite. We steel ourselves against it for a time and rise to it in bitterness and resentment, but gradually it breaks us and we are crushed at last. And this seems the way whether men frown on us with justice or no. And there came on Job when he contemplated his complete casting off by men, by his friends and his household and even by the little children, a complete break-down, and he cries, Pity me, O ye my friends (Job_19:21). This alienation of men was universal:—
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers1878 · Public DomainOn vv13, 17, 19(13) He hath put my brethren far from me.—The…
(13) He hath put my brethren far from me.—The Psalmist has apparently copied this in Psa_88:8. The sense of human desertion is hardly less terrible than that of being forsaken by God, and this has been added to him. It is not easy to read these sad complaints of Job without seeing how fitly they apply to the sorrows of the Man of sorrows. Those who, with the present writer, believe in the overruling presence of the Holy Ghost will adore His wisdom in this fitness; but at all events it shows how completely Christ entered into the very heart of human suffering, in that the deepest expressions of suffering inevitably remind us of Him, whether those expressions are met with in the Book of Job, in the Psalms of David, or in the Lamentations of Jeremiah.
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The Pulpit Commentary1880 · Public DomainOn vv13–19He hath put my brethren far from me. Job…
He hath put my brethren far from me. Job had actual "brothers", (Job_42:11) who forsook him and "dealt deceitfully" with (Job_6:15) during the time of his adversity, but were glad enough to return to him and "eat bread with him" in his later prosperous life. Their alienation from him during the period of his afflictions he here regards as among the trials laid upon him by God. Compare the similar woe of Job"s great Antitype. (Joh_5:5, "For neither did his brethren believe on him And mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. (comp. Psa_38:11 Psa_69:9 Psa_88:8, Psa_88:18) The desertion of the afflicted by their fair-weather friends is a standing topic with the poets and moralists of all ages and nations. Job was not singular in this affliction.
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The Biblical Illustrator1887 · Public DomainOn v14My kinsfolk have failed.
Job_19:14
My kinsfolk have failed.
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Fickleness of friends
What is sweeter than a well-tuned lute, and what is more delightful than a faithful friend, who can cheer us in sorrow with wise and affectionate discourse? Nothing, however, is sooner untuned than a lute, and nothing is more fickle than a friend. The tone of the one changes with the weather, that of the other with fortune. With a clear sky, and a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you will have friends in plenty; but let fortune frown, and the firmament be overcast, and then your friends will prove like the strings of the lute, of which you will tighten ten before you will find one that will bear the tension, or keep the pitch. (Gotthold.)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0On vv13, 15, 17General Information:
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Job continues to speak to his three friends.
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He has put my brothers far from me
Being "far from" someone represents being unwilling to relate to him or help him. AT: "God has caused my brothers to stay away from me" or "God caused my brothers to refuse to help me" (See: Metaphor)
my acquaintances are wholly alienated from me
This can be stated in active form. AT: "my acquaintances have alienated themselves from me" or "my friends treat me like a stranger" (See: Active or Passive)
My kinsfolk have failed me
"My relatives have left me without help"
my close friends
"my intimate friends"
have forgotten me
"have abandoned me" or "have neglected me." This means that they refuse to treat him according to how he and they had related to each other in the past. It implies that they abandoned him.
Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On vv15, 17 Mine household servants: by all these losses Job showeth…
Mine household servants: by all these losses Job showeth that touching the flesh he had great occasion to be moved.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv13–19 Job 19:13 He hath put my brethren far from…
Job 19:13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
Ver. 13. He hath put my brethren far from me] In their affections at least. Some stuck to him, but for a mischief, for they proved miserable comforters, as did likewise Peter to our Saviour, who fled not with the rest of the disciples, but better he had for any good he did him. "A brother is born for adversity," saith Solomon, Pro 17:17; and although at other times there may be some unkindness, fratrum concordia rara est, Harmonious amoung brothers is rare. yet in affliction and extremity good nature will work, and good blood will not belie itself. But Job’s brethren proved unkind, and grew out of kind; they got farthest from him when his enemies had besieged him. And all this befell him, not without the Lord. He hath put my brethren far from me; this was no small aggravation of the affliction, that God withdrew or withheld that assistance and influence that should have enlarged and united the hearts of his brethren unto him. See Psa 105:25.
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And mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me] Those that formerly knew me thoroughly, and were as well known of me, mine intimate friends, who knew all my heart, are now truly as strange to me, as if there had never been any such matter of acquaintance, Noti mei (Vulgate). Necessarii mei (Tigur.). R. Solomon readeth it, They are cruel to me, Quasi esset scriptum aczaru. "All the brethren of the poor man hate him," saith Solomon, Pro 19:7, "how much more do his friends go far from him?" He pursueth them with words; yet they are lacking to him. This the heathen (as Ovid and others) heavily complain of. Aφιλον το δυστυχες (Thue.). Et cum fortuna statque caditque fides (Ovid.). Tempera si fuerint nubila, solus eris (Ibid.). In the river Araris there is reported to be a fish called Scolopidus, which at the waxing of the moon is as white as the driven snow, and at the waning thereof is as black as a burnt coal. A fit emblem of a false friend. "Wealth maketh many friends but the poor is separated from his neighbour," Pro 19:4, who therefore turneth from him as a stranger, if not against him as an enemy.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv13–19 My brethren, i.e. my kindred and friends, who might…
My brethren, i.e. my kindred and friends, who might and should have supported and comforted me in my distress.
Far from me; either,
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1. In place; because they feared or disdained, or at least neglected, to visit or succour me. Or,
2. In their affections, which are far from me, when their bodies are present with me, as I find in you. But this also I ascribe to God; he hath alienated your hearts from me.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv13–19 My kinsfolk have failed,.... Or "ceased" (a), not to…
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", Pro 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.
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(a) "desierunt", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Mercerus, Drusius, Piscator, Schmidt, Michaelis; "cessant", Schultens. (b) "propinqui mei", Pagninus, Montanus, &c.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On vv13, 15, 18, 19 Estranged - As we must eye the hand of…
Estranged - As we must eye the hand of God, in all the injuries we receive from our enemies, so likewise in all the slights and unkindnesses we receive from our friends.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv14, 15, 17, 19 Verse 14. My kinsfolk have failed] Literally, departed: they…
Verse 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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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19 Job 19:13. He hath put my brethren far from…
Job 19:13. He hath put my brethren far from me, &c. — I looked for some support and comfort from my kindred and friends, but they were so astonished at the number and dreadfulness of my calamities that they fled from me as a man accursed of God: and as for my neighbours, who formerly much courted my acquaintance: they keep aloof from me, as if they had never known me. As we must see the hand of God in all the injuries we receive from our enemies, so likewise in all the slights and unkindnesses we receive from our friends.
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain On vv13–19 He hath put my brethren - This is a…
He hath put my brethren - This is a new source of afflication that he had not adverted to before, that God had caused all his children to be estranged from him - a calamity which he regarded as the crown of all his woes. The word rendered “my brethren” (אחי 'âchāy) means means properly “my brothers” - but whether he means literally his brothers, or whether he designs it to be taken in a figuratie sense as denoting his intimate friends, or those of the same rank in life or calling, it is impossible now to determine.
And mine acquaintance - My friends - on whom I relied in time of calamity.
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And verily estranged - They have forgotten me, and treat me as a stranger. What an accurate description is this of what often occurs! In prosperity a man will be surrounded by friends; but as soon as his prosperity is stripped away, and he is overwhelmed with calamity, they withdraw, and leave him to suffer alone. Proud of his acquaintance before, they now pass him by as a stranger, or treat him with cold civility, and when he “needs” their friendship, they are gone.
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On vv17–19 Entreated. Protestants add, "for the children’s sake of mine…
Entreated. Protestants add, "for the children’s sake of mine own body." Septuagint, "I invited with flattering speeches the sons of my concubines. (18) But they cast me from them for ever. When I arise, they speak against me." (Haydock) --- Interpreters generally suppose that Job speaks of the children by his inferior wives: though he might have some at home by the first wife, who were not old enough to be invited to the feast, with those who were destroyed. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On vv13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 brethren--nearest kinsmen, as distinguished from "acquaintance." So "kinsfolk" and…
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; Luk 23:49; Psa 38:11).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain On vv13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 Second strophe — God’s treatment of Job has resulted…
Second strophe — God’s treatment of Job has resulted in the alienation of his friends of every grade, so that the menials of his house now treat him with contempt, Job_19:13-20.
13. My brethren — Umbreit cites an Arabic proverb, “The brother — that is, the true friend — is only known in time of need.” Job specifies six different phases of friendship, or classes of friends, whom his sufferings had alienated: in general, his brethren, (Job_6:15;) his “knowers,” “confidants,” (acquaintance;) his kinsmen. “near ones,” (Psa_38:11 :) “those familiarly known,” (familiar friends,) Job_19:14; sojourners in his house, (Job_19:15;) and finally, bosom friends. (inward friends,) Job_19:19.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv13, 15, 17, 18, 19 13–14. First, his relations outside his own immediate circle…
13–14. First, his relations outside his own immediate circle and his acquaintances stood aloof from him.
13–19. The estrangement and abhorrence of men.
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Job’s complaint now is even more touching than before: God not only afflicted him with trouble but removed far from him all human sympathy. And there is something more breaking to the heart in the turning away of men from us than in the severest sufferings. It crushes us quite. We steel ourselves against it for a time and rise to it in bitterness and resentment, but gradually it breaks us and we are crushed at last. And this seems the way whether men frown on us with justice or no. And there came on Job when he contemplated his complete casting off by men, by his friends and his household and even by the little children, a complete break-down, and he cries, Pity me, O ye my friends (Job_19:21). This alienation of men was universal:—
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On vv13, 17, 19 (13) He hath put my brethren far from me.—The…
(13) He hath put my brethren far from me.—The Psalmist has apparently copied this in Psa_88:8. The sense of human desertion is hardly less terrible than that of being forsaken by God, and this has been added to him. It is not easy to read these sad complaints of Job without seeing how fitly they apply to the sorrows of the Man of sorrows. Those who, with the present writer, believe in the overruling presence of the Holy Ghost will adore His wisdom in this fitness; but at all events it shows how completely Christ entered into the very heart of human suffering, in that the deepest expressions of suffering inevitably remind us of Him, whether those expressions are met with in the Book of Job, in the Psalms of David, or in the Lamentations of Jeremiah.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On vv13–19 He hath put my brethren far from me. Job…
He hath put my brethren far from me. Job had actual "brothers", (Job_42:11) who forsook him and "dealt deceitfully" with (Job_6:15) during the time of his adversity, but were glad enough to return to him and "eat bread with him" in his later prosperous life. Their alienation from him during the period of his afflictions he here regards as among the trials laid upon him by God. Compare the similar woe of Job"s great Antitype. (Joh_5:5, "For neither did his brethren believe on him And mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. (comp. Psa_38:11 Psa_69:9 Psa_88:8, Psa_88:18) The desertion of the afflicted by their fair-weather friends is a standing topic with the poets and moralists of all ages and nations. Job was not singular in this affliction.
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain On v14 My kinsfolk have failed.
Job_19:14
My kinsfolk have failed.
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Fickleness of friends
What is sweeter than a well-tuned lute, and what is more delightful than a faithful friend, who can cheer us in sorrow with wise and affectionate discourse? Nothing, however, is sooner untuned than a lute, and nothing is more fickle than a friend. The tone of the one changes with the weather, that of the other with fortune. With a clear sky, and a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you will have friends in plenty; but let fortune frown, and the firmament be overcast, and then your friends will prove like the strings of the lute, of which you will tighten ten before you will find one that will bear the tension, or keep the pitch. (Gotthold.)
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv13, 15, 17 General Information:
General Information:
Job continues to speak to his three friends.
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He has put my brothers far from me
Being "far from" someone represents being unwilling to relate to him or help him. AT: "God has caused my brothers to stay away from me" or "God caused my brothers to refuse to help me" (See: Metaphor)
my acquaintances are wholly alienated from me
This can be stated in active form. AT: "my acquaintances have alienated themselves from me" or "my friends treat me like a stranger" (See: Active or Passive)
My kinsfolk have failed me
"My relatives have left me without help"
my close friends
"my intimate friends"
have forgotten me
"have abandoned me" or "have neglected me." This means that they refuse to treat him according to how he and they had related to each other in the past. It implies that they abandoned him.
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brother
kin
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv17, 19 19:17 my own family: Job might have been referring…
19:17 my own family: Job might have been referring to his tribal line, his parents, his own children, or his siblings.
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