Job 19:14
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
Job 19:14 in other translations
| BSB | My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me. |
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| WEB | My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me. |
| ASV | My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me. |
| YLT | Ceased have my neighbours And my familiar friends have forgotten me, |
| DARBY | My kinsfolk have failed, and my known friends have forgotten me. |
| BBE | My relations and my near friends have given me up, and those living in my house have put me out of their minds. |
| Webster | My kinsmen have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. |
What does Job 19:14 mean?
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 19:8-22
How doleful are Job's complaints! What is the fire of hell but the wrath of God! Seared consciences will feel it hereafter, but do not fear it now: enlightened consciences fear it now, but shall not feel it hereafter. It is a very common mistake to think that those whom God afflicts he treats as his enemies. Every creature is that to us which God makes it to be; yet this does not excuse Job's relations and friends…
Job 19:14 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 19:14
- Psalms 38:11
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
- Matthew 10:21
And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
- Jeremiah 20:10
For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
- Proverbs 18:24
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
- John 13:18
I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.
- Micah 7:5-6
Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.
- 2 Samuel 16:23
And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
- Psalms 55:12-14
For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him: But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.
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Context
- Job 19:13
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
- Job 19:14
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
- Job 19:15
They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.
Job 19:14 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mis parientes se detuvieron, y mis conocidos se olvidaron de mí. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Mes proches m’ont délaissé, et ceux que je connaissais m’ont oublié. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Meine Verwandten bleiben aus, und meine Vertrauten haben mich vergessen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Dereliquerunt me propinqui mei, et qui me noverant obliti sunt mei. |